Matthew is using each of the nine miracles in chapters eight and nine of this book, to progressively reveal more and more of Jesus’s identity. The previous miracle proved that Jesus has power over the natural world by stilling the storm with his...

Psalm 117 may be short, but it makes a massive demand for all nations to praise the Lord. The source of our praise is the steadfast love of God. The day is coming when all will bow before King Jesus. Will your voice be heard?

This next miracle-story in Matthew’s gospel is in some way about the disciples but it’s mostly a story about Jesus. Because by performing the very deeds that the Old Testament insists that only Yahweh can perform, Jesus demonstrates his identity as...

Just before Jesus and his core disciple shove off from the shore of Galilee our narrator tells us that there were two men who expressed a desire to also become disciples. Upon hearing this, Jesus taught that if you’re going to follow him it’s going to...

After preaching his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus comes down from the mountain and the crowds begin to follow. They’ve heard him preach remarkable things and now he shows them, through miraculous healings, why he has authority to proclaim such things...

Among world religions Christianity stands alone in its teaching of the physical resurrection of the dead. This is fundamental to the Christian faith, because the hero of our faith, the Lord Jesus, was himself resurrected from the dead. And, in turn...

In Titus 2, Paul encourages the church in Crete to not just preach the gospel, but to live the gospel. He goes on to address each group of people in the church and their role and importance in a healthy church. Older men, older women, younger men, and...

As Jesus launched into his public ministry, he went to Capernaum in order to fulfill the words of the prophet Isaiah. His ministry brought the dawning of light to an area of his homeland that had been drifting in darkness. The kingdom of heaven was...

In our previous study on the temptation of Jesus, we kept before us the uniqueness of Jesus’s temptations and all that it meant for him to triumph in these ways. The reality of temptation is something that each of us faces and in this follow-on study...

We all struggle with various temptations including our Lord Jesus. His hair was still wet from his baptism in the Jordan River when he was led into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil. In the wilderness he triumphed over each...