What happens to human ailments when Jesus is present? How is the healing work of Jesus related to His teaching and preaching? How does Matthew's text graciously witness against the religious authorities who falsely accused and ridiculed Jesus? Why does Jesus command us to pray for God to send laborers into His harvest? https://wordwithoutwalls.libsyn.com/bible-study-matthew-927-38-healing-and-harvesters
Podcast: Matthew 9:18-26
Why are the gospels so full of healing accounts? Why did the synagogue ruler continue to "bother" Jesus even though news had come that it was too late? What is God's remedy for ever thinking it is too late? What is the significance of a woman interrupting Jesus on His way, how she was healed, … Continue reading Podcast: Matthew 9:18-26
The Center III
Atheism concludes that there is no God anywhere. Agnosticism concludes that if there was a God we wouldn’t be able to know for sure. Deism concludes that there is a God but far away and uninvolved. Eastertide confronts all of those conclusions with Jesus, God incarnate, risen from the dead and coming among His disciples … Continue reading The Center III
Podcast: Matthew 9:14-17
Every religion fails in a one-dimensional worldview, as desperately as we would like them to succeed. Why do they all fail to save us? Only God's creation is capable of giving us life and redeeming our life. How does it work? https://wordwithoutwalls.libsyn.com/bible-study-matthew-914-17-new-wine-and-new-skin
Obedience
Have you ever noticed how much people are in favor of obedience when they are giving the commands but how little when others are doing the commanding? Jesus was perfectly obedient to the will and command of only One, His Father because that is His nature and because that is love. Thus, Christianity begins with … Continue reading Obedience
Podcast: Matthew 9:9-13
What hope was there for a Jewish tax collector; despised by Jews and Romans? What hope is there for medical care when you are waiting in the ER and finally your name is called? What if the question isn't about hope for the unrighteous or sick but for those who insist they need no healing … Continue reading Podcast: Matthew 9:9-13
The Center II
Remember the difference between geo-centric and helio-centric thinking from last week? Another problem with geo-centric thinking is that we tend to think that nothing happens unless we make it happen; as if we are born into an empty space; no history, no creation, nor ancestors, nor God, nor salvation. My life is what I make … Continue reading The Center II
Podcast: Matthew 9:1-8
Why did God create a material universe if the soul and our relationship with each other and God is essentially spiritual? How did Jesus confirm His will and identity? Why did Jesus confirm forgiveness for the paralytic and only afterwards heal him? Notice that neither the friends who brought the paralytic nor the paralytic himself … Continue reading Podcast: Matthew 9:1-8
The Center
Friends, is our universe helio-centric or geo-centric? Is the sun at the center or the earth? You may have thought that we settled that question a long time ago but today it sounds like people are convinced that not just the earth but the earth that makes up their human nature is the center of … Continue reading The Center
Podcast: Matthew 8:28-34
What is the will of the devil and demons except to destory? Why was the legion of demons that possessed this poor man unable to destroy him? Why wouldn't Jesus let him follow after he was healed? https://wordwithoutwalls.libsyn.com/bible-study-matthew-828-34-jesus-heals-the-man-possessed-by-legion