Inside Out, not Outside In

May 9, 2016

Read Matthew 15:1-20

      “Why do your disciples break the traditions of the elders?  For they do not wash their hands when they eat” (15:2).  It...

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To Doubt Is to Sink, But to Cry Out Is to Be Rescued

May 7, 2016

Read Matthew 14:13-36

      How many steps did Peter take on the surface of the water?  It was enough so that it could be said that, “Peter got out of the boat...

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Love Can Be Wrong, and Saying So Can Be Costly

May 6, 2016

Read Matthew 14:1-12

      John the Baptizer “had been saying” (14:4) that it was a violation of God’s Law for Herod to have taken his brother’s...

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Know It Alls, Know-Nothings, and 'Tweeners

May 5, 2016

Read Matthew 13:44-58

      If the wide variety of interpretations offered in Christian commentaries from across the centuries is any indication, the parables of Jesus are...

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Must Every Church Be Full of "Tares"?

May 4, 2016

Read Matthew 13:24-43

 

      A Springfield, Missouri church fielded two men’s softball teams in the city’s church league, the _____ Baptist Wheat and the...

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