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Oct 2022
Matthew Bob Stillerman Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost, 10/16/2022 Matthew 5:1-12 Matthew Overview Matthew 5.1-12 10-16-2022 A Word About the Word: Matthew It’s the last decade of the First Century. We’re more than fifty years removed from the ministry of Jesus, and at least 25 years removed from Paul’s latest letters. Let’s put that in context. The people living in Matthew’s community are as close to the events of Jesus as we are in 2022 to the Moon Landing, Watergate, and the Vietnam War. In Matthew’s community, just like our own, multiple......
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Feb 2020
Blessed are God’s People A Sermon for Sardis Baptist Church Bob Stillerman Matthew 5:1-12 2-2-2020 Blessed are Gods People Matthew 5.1-12 2-2-2020 Often times, we are tempted to receive today’s text, Matthew’s version of the Beatitudes, as a set of instructions to individual believers. But Jesus, through the writer of Matthew, was speaking to a group of believers: Jesus’ first disciples, the Matthean community of believers, and even our own little congregation of believers. As we reflect on today’s text, I invite you to consider that its words are addressing how Sardis......
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