Matthew 5:5, “Blessed are the meek, for that shall inherit the earth.” 1 Peter 2:23, “…when He suffered, He did not threaten, but continued entrusting Himself to Him who judges justly…” At the heart of true meekness is trusting submission to the will and purposes of God. It is not fatalism or a religious […]
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Matthew 5:3, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” I just finished up a series on John 1:1-18 at Community Christian Church, and anticipate starting the Sermon on the Mount this coming Sunday. As I’ve been preparing for this next series I’ve been musing over, among other things,
Matthew 25:40, “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’” For today’s picture, the text I put together with the image is actually not the text that gave me the idea for the image….the passage
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Matthew 6:10, “Your kingdom come, your will be done…” I read this morning in Jeremiah 46:18 where the Lord says, “As I live declares the King, whose name is YHWH of hosts…” And it struck me….He doesn’t say what He is king of. He just says, “the King.” Of course, the reason is because
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Isaiah 44:23, “Sing, O heavens, for YHWH has done it…break forth into singing, O mountains…for YHWH has redeemed Jacob and will display His beauty in Israel.”Matthew 27:51, “And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.” Since this picture did not grow out of a journal entry and was instead the product of post-reading musings,
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Matthew 27:26, “…having scourged Jesus…” I was reading through Matthew 27 this morning and came across these three simple words referring to Pilate’s sentencing of Christ….the full verse reads: “Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.” What gripped my attention this morning is how much horror
Matthew 16:15, “But who do you say that I am?” Though Jesus asked this question of a particular group of people at a particular time in history, it resonates from the living scripture to every person on the planet….ultimately, this is THE question….who do we–not our families, not our traditions, not our leaders–who do
Matthew 14:27, 30-31, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.” … “But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, ‘Lord, save me!’ Jesus immediately reached out His hand and took hold of him, saying to him, ‘O you of little faith, why did you
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“Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence–…to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence! When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
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Matthew 6:22, “The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” I’m reading through
