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  • When Being Biblical Is Bull
  • Evangelicals in the Age of Trump: "Poor Jesus"
  • Bad News from Good News People
  • The Strength of Confession
  • On The Nashville Statement
  • When A Shepherd Fails
  • Come Unto Me
  • The Right Hand of Presidential Power: Christian Sharia?
  • Fairness, But Not Fealty
  • Women, You Are Not a Temptation
  • The Southern Baptist Convention’s New Conservative Resurgence
  • Fasting Indifference So We Might Feast on Love
  • On the Occasion of a Presidential Address
  • God Never Left the Public Schools
  • This World Is Our Home
  • Count the Cost
  • When You Gain the World
  • #50ShadesOfPurple
  • An Open Letter to Franklin Graham
  • Opposition Party?
  • A Summary of the Book of Amos
  • I Am a Son of the South
  • The Pope and Glyzelle: The Question for Which There Is No Answer
  • On Being Anglican
  • These Will Have to Do
  • Hope Is. . .
  • The Lightest Burden
  • Shadow Boxing
  • God Who Raises the Dead
  • The Lesson of the Manna
  • The Gospel of Matthew
  • The Devil's Bread
  • Fear No Evil
  • From That Night to This Day
  • On Dust & Trust
  • Saved From Faith
  • A Remarkable Ratification
  • A Dose of the Best Medicine
  • Thou Shalt Covet
  • Jesus Isn't All You Need
  • From the Dust
  • When Wonder Brings Hardening
  • Sitting Down at the Table Together
  • On Terrorism and Torture: When Good Prevails
  • Frequently and Thoroughly
  • Love that Seeks and Holds

A Pentecostal Confesstion

5/19/2013

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Well, we bit off a bit more than we could actually chew. A lot more in fact. That’s right, we haven’t completed our blogging on Matthew’s Gospel by Pentecost. Not even close! For now, then, since we've accepted a challenge from our church to join with other congregants in reading through the Bible in a year, we’re going to shift our attention to those readings and that experience, and Matthew will have to wait until later.

No definite promises about what’s to come, but since we think a lot, and sometimes have time to write those thoughts down, there will be more of something to come soon. Or later. ​
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Matthew 11

5/17/2013

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Matthew 10 ends with a twist, a bit of a dig at those religious leaders who presume to be prophetic or to be specially connected to the prophets. Matthew 11 begins by recounting a narrative about one whom Jesus recognizes as truly prophetic, John the Baptist.

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Matthew 10

4/30/2013

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​Jesus has instructed His disciples that a kingdom harvest is ready but the laborers are few who are going into the fields to reap (Mt 9). Regarding their labor in those fields, Jesus gives His disciples specific instructions (in Mt 10).

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Matthew 9:1 - 10:15

4/19/2013

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Jesus has the authority to forgive sins. Authority to call a government tax collector away from his post. To abrogate fasting. Authority such that a ruler comes and kneels before him. Authority over every disease and every affliction, including death. Authority to walk into a crowd of mourners and tell them to go away. Authority over blindness, over demons, authority to teach in the synagogue and to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. Such is the authority of Jesus

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Matthew 8

4/18/2013

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Jesus comes down from the mountain and crowds await him. The needy begin seeking Him out, those sick and dying and others with fear of dying.

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The Lord's Prayer

4/17/2013

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In our previous post we considered the breadth of Jesus’s “Sermon on the Mount,” recorded in Matthew 5-7. Now we return to the center of the Sermon for a fuller reflection on Matt 6:9ff, often referred to as “The Lord’s Prayer.” ​

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Matthew 5 - 7

4/10/2013

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Chapters 5-7 of Matthew’s Gospel are well known as the “Sermon on the Mount,” the most extended recorded address, along with John 14-16, of Jesus. The Sermon is a discourse on the kingdom, a kingdom which is “at hand,” but is not yet finally and fully established. Jesus’s Sermon gives us glimpses into how things will be in that day by telling us how things should be, even today

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Matthew 4

4/7/2013

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Israel, God’s son, came out of Egypt and passed through waters of the Red Sea before being led to the wilderness, and there was tempted. Jesus, God’s son, came out of Egypt and passed through the waters of baptism before being led into the wilderness, and there was tempted

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Matthew 3

4/4/2013

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Years have passed since the return of Joseph and his family to Nazareth. The string of prophetic references, numbering five to this point, continues with a sixth citation, this on the lips of John the Baptist, quoting from the prophet Isaiah. What follows is the prophetic witness of John himself, including both a rebuke against the religious leaders and also a recognition of his cousin Jesus as one greater than he

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Matthew 2

4/4/2013

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Five times from the end of Mathew 1 through the end of Mathew 2 we hear about Jesus in relation to fulfillment of prophecies. Three are about places – Bethlehem, Egypt, and Nazareth – tracing the arc of birthplace, refuge, and home in the early life of Jesus

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