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Severed Heads & Hungry Crowds - Gospel of Matthew Part 22
Episode 100
We’re looking at Matthew Chapter 14. I consider two stories alongside each other in this teaching. One is the story of John the Baptist getting behea…
7 years, 9 months ago
Weeds and Wheat - Gospel of Matthew Part 21
Episode 99
We consider one of Jesus’ parables in this episode. Jesus is explaining who he is and what the kingdom of God that he is announcing is like. He is tr…
7 years, 9 months ago
Jesus Gives Us a Sign - The Gospel of Matthew Part 20
Episode 98
In this teaching, we address Matthew Chapter 12. Here, the leaders of Israel challenge Jesus and they want to make him prove his identity. Jesus resp…
7 years, 10 months ago
One Way Road to the Grave - Gospel of Matthew Part 19
Episode 97
Matthew Chapters 11 and 12 are stories about people responding to what Jesus has been doing in chapters 4 -10. What we see here is one of the first n…
7 years, 10 months ago
The Hammer that Heals - Gospel of Matthew Part 18
Episode 96
We look at Matthew Chapter 11 today. It is kind of a puzzling story, where John the Baptist (who is actually Jesus’ relative and played a very key ro…
7 years, 10 months ago
An Open-Minded Faith - Gospel of Matthew Part 17
Episode 95
This episode addresses faith in a story about Jesus healing a blind man in Matthew Chapter 9. In the Gospels, the word “faith” and specifically "havi…
7 years, 10 months ago
Who Can Forgive Sins? - Gospel of Matthew Part 16
Episode 94
We unravel a well-known story that takes place in Gospel Chapter 9 about Jesus forgiving the sins of a man who is paralyzed in legs. Then, he heals h…
7 years, 11 months ago
A Jesus-Centered Community - Gospel of Matthew Part 15
Episode 93
Today we look at a story in Matthew chapter 9. Each story makes a unique claim on Jesus’s identity, about his character, and the kind of communities …
7 years, 11 months ago
Storms and Swine - Gospel of Matthew Part 14
Episode 92
We are in the narrative chapters of Matthew Chapters 8 and 9, where Matthew has collected nine stories of Jesus performing a whole number of powerful…
7 years, 11 months ago
Make Me Clean - Gospel of Matthew Part 13
Episode 91
In previous episodes, we explored the Sermon on the Mount, but now we turn a corner back into the story Matthew of chapter 8. We explore this story o…
7 years, 11 months ago