Posts Tagged ‘disciple’
7.23.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 168. More persecution.
Matthew 10:25 – “It is enough for the disciple that he may become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they insult the members of his household!” These are hard verses. Hard to understand and hard to walk through. So if…
Read More6.17.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 134. Cloth.
“But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; forthe patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.” – Matthew 9:16. Jesus is answering a question from the disciples of John the Baptist, along with the Pharisees. They have asked why His disciples do not participate in regular…
Read More6.16.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 134. Groom.
Matthew 9:15 starts out like this: “And Jesus said to them, ‘The attendants of the groom cannot mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.” My head starting spinning as I read this verse.…
Read More5.29.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 117. Calm.
“He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?’ Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm.” – Matthew 8:26 Oh….what a reaction to this entire scene Jesus gives us. He wakes up, looks around, calls out their lack of faith and then…
Read More5.25.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 113. Commitment.
Matthew 8:21-22 says this, “And another of the disciples said to Him, ‘Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus *said to him, ‘Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.” Yesterday we spoke about a scribe wanting to follow Jesus. Jesus’ answer to him was probably not what…
Read More5.23.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 111. Follow.
“Now when Jesus saw a crowd around Him, He gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea. Then a scribe came and said to Him, ‘Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.’” – Matthew 8:18-19 Seems like this scene is unrelated to the previous scene. Matthew is probably just trying to keep…
Read More4.24.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 82. Easy. Part 2.
Yesterday we were talking about this verse: “‘Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.” – Matthew 7:13 And then there was these few sentences in the description from Bibleref. The choice most people will make…
Read More3.22.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 51. Fasting.
I’m hungry already just seeing the topic of this devotion…. Matthew 6:16 says this: “‘Now whenever you fast, do not make a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they distort their faces so that they will be noticed by people when they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.” Jesus…
Read More2.14.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 19. All-in-ness?
The next section of Matthew speaks of Jesus calling His disciples. Here’s the scripture: “As he was walking by the shore of Lake Galilee, Jesus noticed two fishermen who were brothers. One was nicknamed Keefa (later called Peter), and the other was Andrew, his brother. Watching as they were casting their nets into the water,…
Read More1.28.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 2. Restore.
Yesterday we were speaking on the word disciple. As we dive into Matthew this will be an important word and one that will continue to surface in the study. Let’s keep going. “The story of the Bible is the story of the world. The Old Testament ends in the middle of this story, longing for…
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