Sermons on Pharisaism
John 5:1-18
SERIES: The Gospel of John Do You Want to Get Well? SPEAKER: Brad Harper Introduction: With the opening of chapter five of John’s Gospel, we enter a new phase in the ministry of Jesus. For the next few chapters John will focus on the growing opposition to Jesus and his work by a group of people he simply calls “the Jews.” Now this is not meant to be an ethnic slur, for John himself is a Jew. It is John’s term…
John 7:53-8:11
SERIES: The Gospel of John Portrait of a Prodigal Daughter SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: “How I wish that there was some wonderful place Called the Land of Beginning Again, Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches And all our poor selfish grief Could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door And never put on again.” The poet who wrote those words, Louisa Fletcher, was expressing a forlorn dream, but I believe there is a place called the…
Matt 21:28-46
Parables for Pharisees, Ancient and Postmodern Introduction: Last Sunday our text from Matthew 21 concerned the beginning of The Week that Was, Passion Week, the final week of Christ’s earthly life. It began with the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into the city of Jerusalem on Sunday, followed by the cleansing of the temple, the cursing of the fig tree, and the challenge to Jesus’ authority by the religious leaders of Israel. Each of these events uniquely revealed the authority of Jesus –over people, over…