Category: From the Pastor

Start your Year on Sure Footing, Gospel of Matthew, Day 34 of 58 Reading Matthew 17:14-27 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2017%3A14-27&version=NIV Scripture When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?”……

Gospel of Matthew, Day 33 of 58 Reading Matthew 17:1-13 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2017%3A1-13&version=NIV Scripture 12 But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.” 13 Then the disciples understood that he…

Start Your Year on Sure Footing, Gospel of Matthew, Day 32 of 58 Reading Matthew 16:21-28 Scripture 23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” Observation Satan is a word that means…

Gospel of Matthew, Day 31 of 58 Reading: Matthew 16:1-20 Scripture 18 And I tell you that you are Peter,[b] and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades[c] will not overcome it. Observation Faith like Simon Peter’s faith is the rock on which the church is built.… Read more “Epiphany…

Start Your Year on Sure Footing, Gospel of Matthew, Day 30 of 58 Reading Matthew 15:21-39 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2015%3A21-39&version=NIV Scripture 26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” 27 “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”……