Today we read a devotion from Donald McKim's devotional, Daily Devotions with Herman Bavinck.

Today we read Matthew 27:45-56. In the darkest three hours of human history, the Son of God cries out in abandonment, yields up His spirit, and the creation responds: the temple veil tears in two, the earth shakes, the tombs open — and a Roman soldier becomes the first person to confess what the high priest refused to believe.

Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promises are fulfilled in Jesus Christ—the Servant‑King, the Son of God, and the Savior for all people

Biblography

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV)

De Graaf, S.G. Promise and Deliverance. Volume 3: The Gospels.

Keener, Craig S. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. 2nd ed.

Ryle, J.C. Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew.

Sproul, R.C. Matthew: An Expositional Commentary.

Digital Study and Research Tools

Logos Bible Software.Lexham Press. Used for Scripture study, original-language tools, and access to primary theological sources.

CLAUDE AI. Used as a research, drafting, and organizational assistant.

Navigate the Way AI. Used as a study and content-navigation aid, organizing background/commentary info.

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Today we read Matthew 27:27-44.The Son of God is mocked as a king, stripped, crowned with thorns, nailed to a cross between two criminals, and taunted to come down — enduring without a word the very shame and curse He had come to bear.

Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promises are fulfilled in Jesus Christ—the Servant‑King, the Son of God, and the Savior for all people

Biblography

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV)

De Graaf, S.G. Promise and Deliverance. Volume 3: The Gospels.

Keener, Craig S. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. 2nd ed.

Ryle, J.C. Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew.

Sproul, R.C. Matthew: An Expositional Commentary.

Digital Study and Research Tools

Logos Bible Software.Lexham Press. Used for Scripture study, original-language tools, and access to primary theological sources.

CLAUDE AI. Used as a research, drafting, and organizational assistant.

Navigate the Way AI. Used as a study and content-navigation aid, organizing background/commentary info.

All music for episodes is from https://share.epidemicsound.com/a0tb8v

Today we read Matthew 27:1-28. Judas returns his blood money and kills himself in despair; Jesus stands before Pilate and is condemned not because He is guilty but because Pilate lacks the courage to release Him — and the crowd chooses Barabbas.

Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promises are fulfilled in Jesus Christ—the Servant‑King, the Son of God, and the Savior for all people

Biblography

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV)

De Graaf, S.G. Promise and Deliverance. Volume 3: The Gospels.

Keener, Craig S. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. 2nd ed.

Ryle, J.C. Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew.

Sproul, R.C. Matthew: An Expositional Commentary.

Digital Study and Research Tools

Logos Bible Software.Lexham Press. Used for Scripture study, original-language tools, and access to primary theological sources.

CLAUDE AI. Used as a research, drafting, and organizational assistant.

Navigate the Way AI. Used as a study and content-navigation aid, organizing background/commentary info.

All music for episodes is from https://share.epidemicsound.com/a0tb8v

Today we read Matthew 26:57-75. While Jesus stands before the Sanhedrin and confesses under oath that He is the Christ — for which He is condemned to death and spat upon — Peter sits outside in the courtyard and denies three times that he knows the Man.

Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promises are fulfilled in Jesus Christ—the Servant‑King, the Son of God, and the Savior for all people

Biblography

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV)

Boice, James Montgomery. The Gospel of Matthew

De Graaf, S.G. Promise and Deliverance. Volume 3: The Gospels.

Doriani, Daniel M. Matthew. Vol. 2.

Keener, Craig S. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. 2nd ed.

Ryle, J.C. Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew.

Sproul, R.C. Matthew: An Expositional Commentary.

Digital Study and Research Tools

Logos Bible Software.Lexham Press. Used for Scripture study, original-language tools, and access to primary theological sources.

CLAUDE AI. Used as a research, drafting, and organizational assistant.

Navigate the Way AI. Used as a study and content-navigation aid, organizing background/commentary info.

All music for episodes is from https://share.epidemicsound.com/a0tb8v

Today we read Matthew 26:30-56. In the garden, the Son of God wrestles in prayer until He has conquered His horror of death and can face the cup with total willingness — then surrenders Himself to those who come to arrest Him, not because He is overpowered but because He has chosen to drink the cup to its last drop.

Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promises are fulfilled in Jesus Christ—the Servant‑King, the Son of God, and the Savior for all people

Biblography

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV)

Boice, James Montgomery. The Gospel of Matthew

De Graaf, S.G. Promise and Deliverance. Volume 3: The Gospels.

Doriani, Daniel M. Matthew. Vol. 2.

Keener, Craig S. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. 2nd ed.

Ryle, J.C. Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew.

Sproul, R.C. Matthew: An Expositional Commentary.

Digital Study and Research Tools

Logos Bible Software.Lexham Press. Used for Scripture study, original-language tools, and access to primary theological sources.

CLAUDE AI. Used as a research, drafting, and organizational assistant.

Navigate the Way AI. Used as a study and content-navigation aid, organizing background/commentary info.

All music for episodes is from https://share.epidemicsound.com/a0tb8v

Today we read Matthew 26:1-29.As the cross approaches, three things converge in this passage: a woman who understood what the disciples could not, a disciple who betrayed what the woman loved, and the Savior who gathered His own around a table and gave them the covenant He was about to seal with His blood.

Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promises are fulfilled in Jesus Christ—the Servant‑King, the Son of God, and the Savior for all people

Biblography

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV)

Boice, James Montgomery. The Gospel of Matthew

De Graaf, S.G. Promise and Deliverance. Volume 3: The Gospels.

Doriani, Daniel M. Matthew. Vol. 2.

Keener, Craig S. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. 2nd ed.

Ryle, J.C. Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew.

Sproul, R.C. Matthew: An Expositional Commentary.

Digital Study and Research Tools

Logos Bible Software.Lexham Press. Used for Scripture study, original-language tools, and access to primary theological sources.

CLAUDE AI. Used as a research, drafting, and organizational assistant.

Navigate the Way AI. Used as a study and content-navigation aid, organizing background/commentary info.

All music for episodes is from https://share.epidemicsound.com/a0tb8v

Today we read Matthew 25:31-46. Jesus closes the Olivet Discourse with the most majestic and sobering scene in all of Matthew’s Gospel: the Son of Man enthroned in glory, all nations gathered before Him, the sheep and goats divided by the single question of whether they served Christ in serving the least of His brothers.

Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promises are fulfilled in Jesus Christ—the Servant‑King, the Son of God, and the Savior for all people

Biblography

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV)

Boice, James Montgomery. The Gospel of Matthew

De Graaf, S.G. Promise and Deliverance. Volume 3: The Gospels.

Doriani, Daniel M. Matthew. Vol. 2.

Keener, Craig S. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. 2nd ed.

Ryle, J.C. Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew.

Sproul, R.C. Matthew: An Expositional Commentary.

Digital Study and Research Tools

Logos Bible Software.Lexham Press. Used for Scripture study, original-language tools, and access to primary theological sources.

CLAUDE AI. Used as a research, drafting, and organizational assistant.

Navigate the Way AI. Used as a study and content-navigation aid, organizing background/commentary info.

All music for episodes is from https://share.epidemicsound.com/a0tb8v

Today we read Matthew 24:29-51. Jesus declares that the Son of Man will come in power and glory to gather His elect, then insists that no one knows the day or the hour — and calls every generation to the watchful readiness of those who know their Master may return at any moment.

Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promises are fulfilled in Jesus Christ—the Servant‑King, the Son of God, and the Savior for all people

Biblography

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV)

Boice, James Montgomery. The Gospel of Matthew

De Graaf, S.G. Promise and Deliverance. Volume 3: The Gospels.

Doriani, Daniel M. Matthew. Vol. 2.

Keener, Craig S. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. 2nd ed.

Ryle, J.C. Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew.

Sproul, R.C. Matthew: An Expositional Commentary.

Digital Study and Research Tools

Logos Bible Software.Lexham Press. Used for Scripture study, original-language tools, and access to primary theological sources.

CLAUDE AI. Used as a research, drafting, and organizational assistant.

Navigate the Way AI. Used as a study and content-navigation aid, organizing background/commentary info.

All music for episodes is from https://share.epidemicsound.com/a0tb8v

Today we read Matthew 24:1-29. Leaving the temple for the last time, Jesus predicts its total destruction — and then from the Mount of Olives gives His disciples a sober account of what lies between His departure and His return: false messiahs, wars, persecutions, apostasy, and an abomination that will signal the time to flee.

Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promises are fulfilled in Jesus Christ—the Servant‑King, the Son of God, and the Savior for all people

Biblography

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV)

Cornelis De Graaf, Promise and Deliverance

R. C. Sproul, Matthew: An Expositional Commentary

Craig S. Keener, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament

J. C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels

C. H. Spurgeon, Sermons

Digital Study and Research Tools

Logos Bible Software.Lexham Press. Used for Scripture study, original-language tools, and access to primary theological sources.

CLAUDE AI. Used as a research, drafting, and organizational assistant.

Navigate the Way AI. Used as a study and content-navigation aid, organizing background/commentary info.

All music for episodes is from https://share.epidemicsound.com/a0tb8v