Christ the King Newton Sermons CTK Newton

“In your gift we find our rest. There are you our joy. Our rest is our peace. … A body by its weight tends to move towards its proper place. The weight’s movement is not necessarily downward, but to its appropriate position: fire tends to move upwards, a stone downwards. … Things which are not in their intended position are restless. Once they are in their ordered position, they are at rest. My weight is my love. Wherever I am carried, my love is carrying me. By your gift we are set on fire and carried upwards.”
—Augustine of Hippo




































Matthew 7:7-11

“Thy Mercy, my God, is the theme of my song, the joy in my heart, and the boast of my tongue; Thy free grace alone from the first to the last, hath won my affections, and bound my soul fast.”
—John Stocker




































Matthew 7:1-6

“‘Be not anxious for the morrow’: either that is cruel mockery for the poor and wretched, the very people Jesus is talking to who, humanly speaking, really will starve if they do not make provision to-day… or it is the unique proclamation of the gospel of the glorious liberty of the children of God, who have a Father in heaven, a Father who has given his beloved Son. How shall not God with him also freely give us all things?”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship




































Matthew 6:25-34

“1. Draw me from created good,From self, the world, and sinTo the fountain of Thy blood,And make me pure within
Chorus: If Thou hast drawn a thousand times(Oh draw me Lord again)Around me cast the Spirit’s bands(Oh draw me Lord again)”
— Benjamin Beddome




































Matthew 6:19-24

“In spite of errors and abuses, Christians in the past had sound intuitions about the centrality of fasting in the Christian life. In the early Church, fasting was not an isolated practice reserved for a day or a season. It was a clue to all Christian living, a perspective on the whole of discipleship. To be a Christian meant to participate in a great feast. It meant also to observe a great fast.”
—Peter J. Leithart




































Matthew 6:16-18

“The simple, possessive pronoun, ‘your’ on Sinai, and now the simple possessive pronoun ‘our’ on the New Testament mountain, join the people of God to God. God was not introduced to Israel, coldly and formally as ‘Yahweh, the God,’ but warmly as ‘Yahweh, your God.’ And now in the same spirit, God is given to us not only as the Father, but as ‘Our Father.’ The ‘our’ means we belong and are at home. It is a possessive pronoun, meaning that God the Father owns us yet gives himself to us so that he is ours and we are his. In the simple word ‘our’ is the joy of the whole gospel. We will never be able to calculate the honor that has been done us by being allowed to say, ‘Our Father.’’’
—F.D. Bruner, Matthew, A Commentary




































Matthew 6:9-15