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...
by Eric Spivey | Mar 13, 2022 | Citizen, Deep Dive, Series Resources
Deep Dive: Lent Feasting Liturgies This year our theme for Lent is Feasting in the Wilderness, a motif that recurs in the Bible (think manna, or the feeding of the 5000), and the liturgy for Wednesdays in this year’s Lent Guide is a liturgy for Feasting (though...
by Megan McCool | Mar 10, 2022 | Citizen
March 13 – Matthew 22:34-40 For some context, this week we find Jesus teaching in the temple, and it’s a few days before his crucifixion. There he was being quizzed by religious leaders as they tried to tangle him up in his words. A gaff or some non-orthodox...
by Eric Spivey | Mar 3, 2022 | Citizen
March 6 – Matthew 21:1-11 Almost every year, around Easter, we turn to the Triumphal Entry (we did this same exact passage in 2020). But this year, in our Citizens series, the passage is hyper relevant—for the past eight weeks we’ve been talking about the...
by Eric Spivey | Feb 24, 2022 | Citizen
February 27 – Matthew 19:16-22 This week, in the story of the rich young ruler, we’ll see that Jesus actually asked the man to give up far more than his “great possessions.” Where the young man came to Jesus with thoughts of performance and reward, Jesus instead...
by Eric Spivey | Feb 20, 2022 | Citizen
February 20 – Matthew 18:1-6 You’ll see some similarities between this passage and our one from last week, Matthew 11:25-30. Back in chapter 11 Jesus praised his Father for having revealed himself to little children, a countercultural way of expressing how...
