One of the most difficult sayings of Jesus was his claim to fulfill the Law and Prophets of the Old Testament. What did he mean by that? While we are often quick to say that Jesus fulfilled the law by perfectly keeping it (a true statement), what if...

The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus’ great manifesto about life in the new Kingdom of Heaven that was dawning on the world with his arrival. And what’s new about this Kingdom isn’t primarily the laws that will govern it, but the people who participate in...

Matthew, more than any Gospel writer, wants us to see Jesus as a New Moses who comes out of Egypt (Mt. 2:14), crosses through the waters of baptism (Mt. 3), and is tempted for 40 days in the wilderness (Mt 4:1-11). Like Moses Jesus has come to deliver...

When Jesus came announcing that the “kingdom of heaven” was at hand, it was good news that God had entered human history and now everything has changed. But what does this actually mean for us and how have things changed? What should our lives look...

Once upon a time in a far off land,/Wise men saw a sign and set out ‘cross the sand.” So begins Steve Earle’s song “Nothing but a Child”.The magi traveled a long way to find a waning kingdom of frustrated hopes, apathetic and murderous leaders, and in...