Our scripture text this morning is from Matthew chapter 3, Matthew chapter 3, verses 13 to 17. If you were with us last Sabbath day, we saw John the Baptist gathering those at the Jordan River to be baptized. We’ll continue with the second half of this chapter this morning. as Jesus Christ comes to…
Let us pray before we read the scripture text. Lord God, we thank you for your word. We thank you that through your spirit, you have spoken to the apostles and prophets of old and thereby have spoken even to us. We pray that as we cast our eyes upon your word that you would…
Matthew chapter two, we’ll be reading again the first 12 verses, focusing on verses really three to 12 this morning. Before we go to the Lord, hear from the Lord, let’s ask his blessing once more upon the reading, preaching, and hearing of that word. Let’s pray once more. O gracious, almighty God, again we…
Keep your copy of scriptures there in hand, and turn to the Gospel of Matthew. I’m gonna take a short detour from James, this wonderful wisdom book in the New Testament. We’ll pick up in chapter four after a couple of weeks. We’re gonna spend a couple times in Matthew chapter two, a couple of…