Finding Our Way Through Lent
Today is Ash Wednesday. This is the official beginning of Lent. Many of us will attend a worship service today where someone will smear black ashes mixed with oil on our forehead and say, “Remember that from dust you came and to dust you will return.” What...
How Many Times Should We Forgive? | Matthew Page 13 Now Online
How can we get along in the church? in the world? That’s what Jesus talks about in Matthew 18:1-35. Scholars call this the Community Discourse. Jesus is asked two questions: 1) Who is the greatest? 2) How often should we forgive? Answer: The least is the...
Finding Our Way to the Transfiguration | Page 12 of Matthew is Online
Things are about to get really bad for Jesus and his disciples in Matthew 16:13-17:27. They need a glimpse of hope before the storm arrives. Jesus leads Peter, James and John to the top of a mountain where he is transfigured before their eyes. They don’t know what to do.