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The Sunday word
Jesus preached to be believed, and He taught to be followed. This page is how His preaching still meets a life, and how the Word of God reads the time we are in.
His preaching and His teaching
How Jesus preached and taught
He did not preach one gospel for the important and a thinner gospel for everybody else. He sat down. He told the truth in stories a household can repeat. He taught the crowd, and He stopped for one person. The Sunday sermons of this ministry are trying to stay in that school.
Matthew 5:1–2
He sat down and taught
He saw the crowd first. He did not rush a performance. He sat, and then He taught people a religious chair would have kept outside.
Matthew 13:34
Stories every age can hold
A sower. A lost sheep. A son coming home. Two houses in a storm. A child can carry the story. An elder can live in it and never finish it.
John 3:3
The crowd, and the one
Nicodemus came at night. A woman heard Him at a well. A man heard his own name from up in a tree. Jesus stopped for the person the crowd had already finished with.
Mark 10:14
He called the children
The disciples thought the children were in the way of the real work. Jesus said the kingdom looks like a child coming to Him. This page is not waiting until someone is older.
Matthew 4:17
Repent. The kingdom is near.
His preaching was not a list of tips. It was a King. The old life does not get to stay on the throne and borrow His name.
Luke 4:18–21
The Scripture, fulfilled
He read Isaiah and sat down. Good news to the poor. Liberty for the captive and the bruised. Then He said, this day the Scripture is fulfilled.
Matthew 7:28–29
Authority, because the life matched
The scribes could quote. Jesus taught as one having authority. He did not send anybody down a road He refused to walk.
Matthew 24:35
His words remain
Heaven and earth will pass away. His words will not. Our year does not correct His preaching. His preaching reads our year.
Not a relic
How the Word of God applies to our time
The Bible has not changed. The rooms where it is tested have. The age does not get to edit the Word until the Word feels kind. The Word reads the age, including this one, and then it comes into an ordinary week.
Isaiah 40:8
The Word still stands
The grass of every generation fades. The word of our God stands for ever. We do not ask if the Bible can survive this time. We ask if this time will bow to the Bible.
Hebrews 4:12
It is living
The Word is quick and powerful. It does not stop at the headline. It discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart.
2 Timothy 3:16–17
It still furnishes a life
Scripture still teaches, corrects, and instructs. A person in this year can be furnished for a real work, not only for a religious opinion.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Who you are
This time tells a person to name himself. The Word says you are a creature, made by God, and in Christ a new creature. You do not get the last word on your name.
John 14:6
What is true
This time says you have your truth and I have mine. Jesus said, I am the truth. His prayer still stands: Thy word is truth.
Matthew 6:33–34
A fearful day
Tomorrow, the money, the body, the news. Jesus told disciples to seek the kingdom first. The day is heavy. The day is not lord.
Matthew 5:44
A cruel age
He said love your enemies under a real empire. It still applies under a feed that pays the cruelest sentence. Truth does not need a cruel mouth.
Luke 4:18
The poor and the bruised
They are still here. In the house, on the street, in the room. If we can explain a text and will not see the person, we missed the Preacher.
Then it gets closer than the age. The phone. The job. The house. The table where a child is listening. The later years, which still bear fruit. A want-to-be wants Jesus in the meeting and the age everywhere else. A Christian lets the Word into the rooms the age thinks it owns.
Not one kind of hearer
How every age receives the word
Jesus taught the child, the young, the worker, the parent, and the elder with the same truth. A sermon in this ministry is not written for one age and then translated down. Take the part that has your name on it.
Mark 10:14
A child
You do not have to understand every sentence. Listen for one true thing. Tell the truth today. Be kind when nobody is making you. Ask a grown believer when a word is too big. Jesus wanted children near Him while the word was being taught.
1 Timothy 4:12
A teenager
You are not a future hearer. The sermon is not a lecture you sit through until you are older. Let it speak to the pressure you are actually under: the phone, the crowd, the feeling that you are not seen. Your place in the word is yours.
Proverbs 27:17
A man or a woman in the middle of life
Do not only collect notes. Ask what the word is asking of this week, at the job and in the house. Men, take it to a brother. Women, take it to a sister. A word that never leaves your own head has not finished its work.
Deuteronomy 6:7
A parent
The sermon does not end when the page closes. It finishes at the table. Tell your children one thing you heard, in words they can repeat. If you need to say you were wrong, say it where they can see it. That teaches them how a Christian hears God.
Psalm 92:14
A golden warrior
You are not finished because the pace has changed. You still bear fruit. Help a younger person hear what you have already lived. Your patience with the word is itself a sermon this generation cannot download.
Monday
After the word is preached
Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Hearing is not the end. The week is where a person finds out whether the sermon was received or only attended.
Romans 10:17
James 1:22
Hear it, then do it
Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only. A sermon that is admired and not followed is the very thing Jesus warned the crowd about when He finished the mountain.
Psalm 119:11
Keep one verse
Do not try to remember the whole hour. Keep one sentence of Scripture in front of you this week. Thy word have I hid in mine heart. One verse, lived, is more than a page of notes left in a chair.
Deuteronomy 6:7
Say it in the house the same day
Talk about it when you sit down. Not a speech. One thing the Lord said, and one place it touches the week. A house that never speaks of the word will not remember it by Wednesday.
2 Corinthians 13:5
Let it search you first
Examine yourselves. The sermon is not a tool for grading your brother. If it finds a costume in you, that is mercy. Bring it to Christ before you carry it to anybody else.
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The Sunday manuscripts
What is preached on the Lord’s Day is kept here for approved members. The teaching above is for anyone who came to this page. The manuscript opens with the email Minister Allen approved.