Category: Matthew
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The Friends of God
Matthew 12:46-50 “While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him.But he replied to the man who told him, ‘Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?’ And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, ‘Here are my mother and…
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Asking in Prayer
Matthew 7:7-11 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if…
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Some Lessons from Living Things
Matthew 6:26-28 “Look at the birds of the air . . . Consider the lilies of the field” I love “the study of life,” which is the definition of “biology.” That’s why I committed myself to the study of this topic and why I chose a career as a fisheries biologist for the Pennsylvania Fish…
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Opposing the Truth
Matthew 21:33-39 “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. And the…
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Spiritual Covid
Matthew 10:28 “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” We are living in unprecedented times. Never in my lifetime have I seen so much focus on a single disease – the infamous Covid-19. In a period of a…
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Like a Thief
Matthew 24:43-44 “But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”…
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Eternity . . .
Hell . . . is . . . forever Heaven is as well Jesus spoke often of both places. Do you have ears to hear what He said? (Luke 16:19-31; Matthew 25:31-46; John 3:1-21; John 14:1-6)
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The Things of Man
1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” Matthew 16:21-23 “From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took…
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Wise Investments
Matthew 19:29 “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.” If you were guaranteed a 100-fold return on an investment, would you make that investment? It would be pretty foolish not to. It would…
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A Great Invitation
Matthew 4:19 “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” It is difficult to put into words the glorious calling of God to those who know Him. The common fishermen to whom Jesus spoke the words above could have never dreamed what their lives would entail should they heed the invitation of the Son…
To Encourage You 