“Follow Me,” were words that perhaps Matthew the tax collector would have never expected to come in a conversation with a Jewish Rabbi. Matthew collected taxes for Herod, charging duty on goods brought into the city of Capernaum. Since the taxman was responsible to cover any shortfalls, he had to be merciless in collections. It … Continue reading Lost and Found
The Faith
There is a crossroads that we all come. Not the one that Robert Johnson sung about but the place where we must make decisions with eternal consequences. We hear the proclamation of the gospel. We hear Christ say, “Follow me.” The call is for a faith of reckless abandonment. “When Christ calls a man,” wrote … Continue reading The Faith
Restoration
As I’m reading through Matthew 8, I find there three miracles of Christ grouped together—the healing of a leper (vv.1-4), the healing of a centurion’s servant (vv.5-13), and the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law and the exorcism of multitudes (vv. 14-17). These passages represent the goodness and restoration associated with the ministry of Israel’s long awaited … Continue reading Restoration
The Two Ways
Jesus Christ often taught through antithesis—good and evil, right and wrong, true and false. This, of course, is something quite unpopular in an age of relativism, where everyone does whatever is right in one’s own eyes, in a spirit of all inclusive embrace. Yet, Jesus would have not stood for all ways being equal, nor … Continue reading The Two Ways
Ask, Seek, Knock
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you,” said Jesus Christ, who goes to explain, “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened” (Matt. 7:1). The present tense of the verbs … Continue reading Ask, Seek, Knock
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