Category: Matthew
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Good Grief (Matthew 5:4; John 11:17-35)
Grief tells us something is wrong with the world. But it also awakens a longing for the day when God will make all things new. In the second Beatitude, Jesus doesn’t tell us to deny our sorrow—He promises that sorrow will not have the last word.
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Blessing Begins With Brokenness (Matthew 5:3; Luke 18:9-14)
Part 1 of BLESSEDR: A Study of the Beatitudes. Jesus begins in a radical way: Blessing begins when we admit we are broken.
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Day 257 The Lions of Babylon and the Lion of Judah: Three Parallels (Daniel 6:17)
A stone. A royal seal. An unchangeable law. A visit at dawn expecting death—and unexpected joy. Daniel in the lions’ den contains some remarkable echoes of the resurrection story. But one crucial difference changes everything: when the stone rolled away in Jerusalem, the Lion walked out.
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Day 139: The Cycle of Recycled Revenge (2 Samuel 19-21)
In 2 Samuel 19–21, the kingdom feels trapped in what Coldplay called “a cycle of recycled revenge.” But Jesus, the Son of David, offers a better way: reconciliation instead of retaliation, peace instead of score-settling.
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Day 131: Why The Pharisees Missed It, and Why We Sometimes do Too (Psalm 20)
The Pharisees knew the Scriptures well enough to recognize messianic language, but they could not imagine God fulfilling His promises in a way that didn’t match their expectations.
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What Comes Next, Part 2: Confirmed
Part 2 of the Series “What Comes Next”
