Reading: Matthew 22:15-22 “… Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s” – Matthew 22:21. Lord, help me not to make too much of things that have no eternal significance, but rather to set my heart and eyes on what is above, and spend more time with You. Thank you and…
Reading: Matthew 22:1-14 The bride of Christ. From childhood I’ve always heard that we who are redeemed in Jesus is the bride of Christ. I didn’t really know why, because the parable of the wedding banquet seems to identify us as guests. So now I thought I’d make a little investigation—by typing in the word…
Faith / Forgiveness / Matthew / New Testament / Repentance / Salvation
Reading: Matthew 22:11-14 “… Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ….” – Romans 13:14 The passage about the wedding guest being banished for not wearing the appropriate costume baffled me for a long time. What if he were poor and could not afford the proper clothes? Thankfully I got some explanation from my life application…
Faith / Matthew / New Testament / Salvation
Reading: Matthew 22:1-14 “So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests” – Matthew 22:10. I was just pondering on the phrase “both good and bad” from the verse quoted above. Even the “good” had to…
Reading: Matthew 21:33-46 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.” – Matthew 21:42-43 Lest we think that going through the gesture of praying for forgiveness will magically save us from eternal damnation, let us remember that true…
Reading: Matthew 21:33-46 My friend, have you already believed that Jesus was the promised Messiah, coming to the world to set our standing with God right, and to establish His earthly kingdom where He will be governor of all the land–ruling it with righteousness and justice? If we are not consciously making a choice to…
Post cover image by Tomas Castelazo derivative work: Veronidae (This file was derived from: Prostitute tj.jpg:) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons Reading: Matthew 21:28-32 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.” – Matthew 21:31 In a…
Reading: Matthew 21:28-32 There is no one I know of who is more guilty of not meaning and doing what’s said than myself. Sometimes the intention is really there to carry out, but because of the urgent things in life it slides down in my priority list; other times it just becomes automatic to say…
Reading: Matthew 21:23-27 They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?” – Acts 4:7 (NIV) It is sometimes too easy to forget that as children of God, we have power from on high, and we have authority to use that…
Reading: Matthew 21:18-22 We can only not yield fruit for a time–after which we will be fit for the fire. Lord, help us to bear fruits! Let us make a self-assessment based on Galatians 5:22 and I Corinthians 13. Do I have: Love – am I not envious? – am I not boastful? – am…
Reading: Matthew 21:1-11 “Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey.’” “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!” … The whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?” The crowds answered, “This is JESUS….”
Reading: Matthew 20:29-34 “The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet….” (v.31) We sing during our worship service at church–our tongues articulate the words, and yet the moment it starts to enter our hearts and minds we restrain the tears from falling from our eyes, and our arms from lifting up to worship…
