God’s Knowledge and our Fear.Matthew 10:24-31“So do not fear….are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.”Matthew 10:29-30 is often qu...  Read More

Popular or PropheticFor it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.”Matthew 10:16-23No one likes to be unpopular, to be shunned and ignored.  Part of our personalit...  Read More

A Life of SignificanceMatthew 10:1-15“And when you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”What is your goal in life?  At the end of your life, what do you desire to accomplish?  These...  Read More

Seeing as Jesus SeesMatthew 9:35-38“Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd.”“Seeing” is a significant thread woven th...  Read More

The God of HopeMatthew 10:20-22, 27-34“Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well.”When we face unrelenting adversity, we lose hope, and despair grips the soul.  After contrasting the new or...  Read More

The Old versus the New:  Death versus LifeMatthew 9:18-34“He entered and took her by the hand, and the girl got up.”Having compared the old religious order with the new order of faith, Matthew now giv...  Read More

Outward Conformity vs. Inward TransformationMatthew 9:14-17“But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.”  The disc...  Read More

The Unlikely DiscipleMatthew 9:9-13“He saw a man called Matthew sitting in the tax collector’s booth, and he said to him, ‘Follow Me!’”With God, it does not matter where you have been; it only matters...  Read More

The Authority of JesusMatthew 9:1-8“So that you many know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.”The religious leaders were shocked and enraged.  After his brief respite from the ...  Read More

Fearing Divine InterruptionMatthew 8:21-34“And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw Him, they implored Him to leave their region.”When Jesus crossed over to the eastern sho...  Read More

When Fear Grips the Heart and MindMatthew 9:23-27“’Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?’  Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm.”It had been a busy and...  Read More

The Lure of Convenience.Matthew 8:18-22“Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”  It is easy to follow Jesus when...  Read More