Month: April 2022
WEEK 16 | TUESDAY | MATTHEW 7.15-29
This week’s readings are all from Matthew 7-8. Click here to see a full listing of each day’s reading and the full chapter of Matthew 7-8. Full readings of each day’s smaller segments of the readings will be posted on this site during the week.
WEEK 16 | MONDAY | MATTHEW 7.1-14
This week’s readings are all from Matthew 7-8. Click here to see a full listing of each day’s reading and the full chapter of Matthew 7-8. Full readings of each day’s smaller segments of the readings will be posted on this site during the week.
WEEK 16 | SUNDAY | MATTHEW 7-8
This week’s reading is two chapters: Matthew 7-8 These chapters are the last chapter of three of the Sermon on the Mount and the resumption of the narrative of Jesus’ work. The daily readings are: Monday: Matt 7:1-14 Tuesday: Matt 7:15-29 Wednesday: Matt 8:1-13 Thursday: Matt 8:14-22 Friday: Matt 8:23-34
Good Friday Meditation #9: Jesus’ body is taken and buried before sundown
Matthew As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,and placed it in his own new tomb that …
Good Friday Meditation #8: Jesus Dies
Matthew And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were …
Good Friday Meditation #7: Jesus Prays Psalm 22
Matthew And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.”And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour …
Good Friday Meditation #6: Three Hours of Darkness
Mark And when the sixth hour [noon] had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour [3pm]. (Mark 15.33 ESV)
Good Friday Meditation #5: “Remember me”
Luke One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but …
Good Friday Meditation #4: Not Abandoned by Everyone
John …but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” (John 19.25–27 ESV)
Good Friday Meditation #3: ‘…that we may see and believe…’
Luke And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!” The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” …