by Eric Spivey | Apr 22, 2022 | Citizen
April 24 – Matthew 28:16-20 This week we’re turning to Matthew 28:16-20, which contains something called the Great Commission. Earlier in the chapter Jesus resurrected from the dead and in our passage Matthew draws his Gospel account to a close with a final...
by Eric Spivey | Apr 14, 2022 | Citizen
April 17 – Matthew 28:1-10 This isn’t the case for everyone, but the resurrection might be old hat to you. Like many other things about our faith, overwhelming familiarity with the concepts and stories of the Bible can make us less astounded than we ought to be....
by Megan McCool | Apr 8, 2022 | Citizen
April 10 – Matthew 27:15-23 This week we pick up on the day of Jesus’ crucifixion. The night before he was betrayed by Judas, arrested, and interrogated at least twice. In the morning he was sent to Pilate having stayed up all night, having suffered abuse at the...
by Megan McCool | Mar 31, 2022 | Citizen
April 3 – Matthew 25:31-46 As always, let’s start with the context. This week we’re in Matthew 25:31-46, just a couple days before Jesus’ crucifixion. Here we find Jesus at the end of what’s called the Olivet Discourse, which runs from Matthew 24:3 to 25:46 and...
by Megan McCool | Mar 27, 2022 | Citizen
March 27 – Matthew 18:21-35 Next week we’ll jump back into the events leading up to the crucifixion, but for now we’ll take another step back in the Gospel of Matthew to look at a story about the Kingdom of Heaven. There Jesus tells a parable about forgiveness,...
by Megan McCool | Mar 19, 2022 | Citizen
March 20 – Matthew 22:15-22 Last week I mentioned that Jesus got three tricky questions while he was teaching in the temple, the last being the question about the greatest commandment we just studied. This week we’ll flip back to the first question, when Jesus...