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A Sermon for the Feast of St. Matthew St. Matthew 9:9-13 and 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 by William Klock “As Jesus was leaving that place, he saw a man called Matthew sitting in the toll booth.” I expect that Matthew was just itching to get to this part of the story as he wrote his gospel account.  It's nine chapters in, roughly a third of the way.  But he knew that the Gospel is about Jesus, not Matthew.  Still, he was excited to tell people how he had met Jesus.  Up to this point, Matthew's been telling us about walking around Galilee preaching good news and doing all the Messiah things that made the good news real and tangible to people.  He's been across the Sea of Galilee where he cast a multitude of demons out of a man and now he's back and on his way home to Capernaum.  And that's how he meets Matthew.  Matthew's a tax- or a toll-collector and here he is, sitting in his tollbooth next to the road.  I suppose there must have been some kind of gate.  Matthew would get up from his stool, go out to the road, and collect the toll from everyone going from Point A to Point B and from Point B to Point A.  And everyone who went by grudgingly handed over their money.  And they grumbled.  And probably not a few people had some choice words for Matthew.  Because everybody hated tax collectors. I was racking my brain this week trying to think of an example from our world that would explain just how much people hated tax-collectors and why and it's hard to think of a modern equivalent.  That was a different world.  No one likes a tax-collector, because no one likes paying taxes.  But in First Century Judaea there was way more to it than just people not liking paying taxes.  The local Roman government decided how much they would need to run things and then they'd farm the collection of taxes out to the highest bidder.  And, of course, the tax collectors had to make a living themselves, so they'd pad their collection.  But they weren't just getting by.  Tax collectors were notorious for using their position to enrich themselves.  And the local council or governor didn't care just so long as they got their cut of the revenue.  It was bad enough and common enough that when the rabbis wrote about tax collectors, they typically lumped them together with thieves.  And it only made it worse when the tax collectors were working for the Romans.  We don't know if Matthew was working directly for the Romans or for some local Galilean authority, but at the end of the day it didn't really matter.  At some level the Romans were in charge of it all and tax collectors were thieves doing their dirty work. But there's more to it than that.  We think of Matthew, padding his toll collecting and getting rich by stealing from people whom he's got over a barrel and we think he's a pretty rotten guy.  That's an awful thing to do.  That's a scummy way to make your money.  But for the Jews there was another layer, something deeper to what made it so horrible, what made them hate someone like Matthew so much. Let me try to explain.  So, if you or I hear about a thief—or maybe a crooked tax collector skimming off the top—we just think, “That's a bad person”.  If we found out that this thief had been baptised and grew up going to church and Sunday school, we'd think something like, “I guess he forgot everything he was taught as a kid.”  Maybe if it came out he was an active warden or elder or deacon in his church, then we might start to think about what he'd done as a betrayal not just of his faith, but of us all.  Here's a guy who professed faith in Jesus, but betrayed that faith by doing something really sinful.  And maybe that gets us closer to how Matthew's fellow Jews would have thought about him.  Because Matthew was circumcised.  Matthew was part of the covenant community.  Matthew was marked out as one of the Lord's people.  And Matthew knew their story.  Matthew knew all about the Lord and how he had delivered his ancestors from Egypt.  Matthew knew all the great things the Lord had done in the centuries that followed.  We can kind of excuse some people today.  We all know people who were baptised, but they were never really taught the faith, their parents never really took them to church, now they're grown up and say they're an atheist, and the sinful lifestyle they live kind of makes sense in light of all that.  But that wasn't Matthew.  That wasn't anyone in Israel.  Everyone knew what it meant to be God's people.  There were no atheists.  They all knew that God hates sin.  They knew what it meant to be the people who lived with God in their midst.  They knew that you had not only to be holy to enter God's temple, but that you also had to be pure.  That's what set them apart from the pagans.  Matthew knew all of this.  Even if he he'd had rotten parenting, everything and everyone around him would have reinforced all of this. And he rejected it.  Maybe he chose this life on his own.  Maybe he inherited the job from his father who inherited it from his father.  That probably would have made it easier.  But whatever the case Matthew chose to live a life in apposition to everything his family, his people, and his nation stood for and he chose to do it right in the midst of them.  Imagine an Amish boy who decides he doesn't want to be Amish anymore.  Usually they leave and go to live in the outside world, but imagine this Amish kid decided to stay in his close-knit Amish town, but he struts around in fancy clothes, whips around town in his Porsche, and throws wild parties with loud music at his house on the weekends.  And everyone would be horrified at him.  That's Matthew, a tax-collector in Israel. But it gets worse.  Or at least I think it does.  Not everyone would agree with me on this part.  Mark and Luke, in their Gospels, refer to Matthew by the name of “Levi”.  Christian tradition has mostly understood Matthew and Levi to be the same person, but to make this connection is not without its difficulties.  One of those difficulties is that it was pretty rare for a Jewish person to have two Aramaic names.  A Jewish name and Greek name?  Like Saul of Tarsus who is also known as Paul: that's common.  But usually if someone with an Aramaic name has a second Aramaic name, it's because their given name is common, like John or Judas or Joshua, and the second name—maybe the name of his father—distinguishes him from other guys with the same name.  But neither Matthew nor Levi were common names.  No one was likely to confuse this Matthew with another Matthew.  But the one instance in which we see men with two Aramaic names is when they come from prominent families.  It wasn't uncommon for these men to be known by their family names.  And I think that's what has happened with Matthew.  Mark and Luke remember him as “Levi”—his family name—but Matthew went by his given name.  Because the family name Levi mean that they were a Levitical family.  And this made things all the worse for Matthew.  The tribe of Levi were the priestly family.  They were the ones who served in the temple.  They were the ones who acted as mediators between the Lord and his people.  Israel was a holy people, but the Levites were a holy tribe within that holy people.  Consider that one of the duties of the Levites was the collection of taxes.  They collected the tithes of Israel.  Those tithes were their livelihood.  And they collected the temple tax, to pay for the upkeep of the Lord's house.  But Matthew had become a tax collector of another kind, not one dependent on the Lord and the faithfulness of his people, but a man who fleeced God's people in collusion with the pagans. Brothers and Sisters, that was Matthew sitting in his toll-booth.  A wealthy traitor not only to the Lord, but to his people and to his family and to his calling and despised by everyone.  I fully expect there were days when Matthew longed to get out of the mess he was in.  In theory he could have made everything right and returned to the Lord, but to do that he'd have had to make restitution.  I don't think Matthew would have even known where to begin.  And so he stayed in his toll-booth, he kept his riches, and he threw parties for other tax collectors and sinners—because they were the only people who would associate with him.  And every day he became a little bit more dead inside. And then, this day, along came Jesus.  Matthew knew perfectly well who Jesus was.  Everyone in Galilee was talking about Jesus.  If nothing else, Matthew would have heard about his miracles, but I expect he'd heard about his preaching, too.  Maybe Matthew had even stood at a distance a time or two in Capernaum to hear Jesus preach.  Matthew knew that in Jesus the God of Israel was doing something.  But Matthew stayed at a distance.  Because Matthew knew he was a traitor to his God and to his people and to his covenant.  As attractive as Jesus and his message were, it was not for someone like Matthew. Brothers and Sisters, how many people around us feel just like that?  They're sinners.  They feel the weight of it and would love for it to be gone.  They've got some vague knowledge of Jesus.  But they'd never come to church.  A coworker once said to me, “Church is for holy people, not for people like me.”  They see no way out. And now Matthew sees Jesus approaching his gate.  Maybe he thought, “This might be the Messiah.  I should really cut him a break instead of ripping him off like I do everyone else.”  And that's when, he writes in verse 9, Jesus “said to him, ‘Follow me.'”  And he just says, “And he rose up and follow him.” I have to think there was at least a little bit more to it than that.  But those words, “Follow me” were ultimately what did it for Matthew.  No Pharisee, no scribe, no lawyer had ever come to Matthew and said, “Follow me, Brother.  Let me help you get out of your sins.”  They paid his extortionate toll, dropping their coin in the toll-box and being extra careful not to touch it or anything else that Matthew had touched.  They sneered at him—if they looked at him at all—called him “traitor”, and went on their way.  But this Jesus, this man in whom the God his fathers was so clearly at work doing something new, Jesus smiled and invited him to join in what he was doing. Brothers and Sisters, sometimes that's all it takes.  Matthew had seen God's glory on display in Jesus, but he didn't think it was for him.  He just needed to hear that, yes, in fact it was for him—for everyone, but especially for people like him.  That was actually part of the new thing Jesus was doing.  Without Jesus, reconciliation with is people was hopeless.  He was a toll-collector.  How could he ever make things right with everyone he'd ever stolen from?  How could he even make a good faith effort?  But in those words, “Follow me,” Jesus offered Matthew forgiveness.  Jesus bypassed the temple, because he is the new temple himself; he bypassed the priests, because he is our new priest; and he bypassed the sacrifices and the law of restitution, because he is the full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of Israel and the whole world.  Jesus simply held out forgiveness and reconciliation to Matthew.  All Matthew had to do was leave his tollbooth behind—that's repentance—and follow Jesus.  And, Matthew says, that's just what he did.  “He rose up and followed him.” He “rose up”.  I think Matthew chose that language deliberately.  It's resurrection language.  When he decided to trust Jesus—and that's just what it was: trust and loyalty and allegiance—he was raised up out of his sin, he was raised up out of his alienation from God and from his people, and he was given his life back.  And not just given back his old life, Jesus gave him something even better.  He lifted Matthew up out of the life this evil age of sin and death and gave him a taste and a promise of the age to come, of new creation, of the Holy Spirit, and of the fellowship with God that his people had been so longing for. And, too, Jesus restores to Matthew his birthright as a Levite.  As the Levites mediated the Lord to his people, so Matthew now brings the good news about Jesus to his people.  In verse 10 he immediately takes us to his house.  “When he was at home,” he writes, “sitting down to a meal, there were lots of tax-collectors and sinners there who had come to have dinner with Jesus and his disciples.”  Other tax collectors and sinners were the only people who hang around with Matthew.  Matthew knew that some of them felt the same way he did.  They were traitors to the Lord and traitors to his people.  They were hopelessly lost sheep.  There was no way out.  But Matthew had found it—or, rather, the way out had found him.  And so he invites his friends to meet Jesus.  They'd heard and seen him doing amazing things.  Like Matthew, they'd been on the fringe.  If the priest and Levites—not to mention everyone else in Israel—condemned them and kept apart from them, the Messiah certainly wasn't for them.  But here he was and Jesus was saying the same thing to them that he'd said to Matthew: “Follow me.”  And, I expect, at least some of them did.  And Jesus and the disciples rejoiced with those people because they knew that heaven itself was rejoicing too. But there were always the Pharisees.  Matthew writes that when they “saw it, they said to Jesus' disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat with tax-collectors and sinners?'  But Jesus heard them.  ‘It isn't the healthy who need a doctor,' he said, ‘it's the sick.  Go and learn what this saying means: “It's mercy I want, not sacrifice.” I haven't come to call upright people, but sinners.'” Like Paul says in our Epistle today, there was a veil over their eyes.  The Pharisees were sick in their own ways, and Jesus exposed their sickness by going to the tax-collectors and sinners.  When they complain about it, he quotes the words the Lord had spoken to Isaiah.  We heard those words last week when our Gospel was the parable of the good Samaritan—Hosea 6 turned into a story.  The problem was that the people lacked the heart of God.  The sinners devoted to their sinning, the greedy tax-collectors ripping everyone off, and the Pharisees too—almost everyone in Israel—was far from God.  His absence from the temple all those years was a metaphor for Israel's problem.  Even those who were devoted to the law and who were “religious” about their tithing and their sabbaths and their diet and their sacrifices, were no closer to God than the prostitute or the tax-collector.  And so Jesus came to the sinners with God's mercy—because they so desperately needed it—and he gave it to them in front of the watching scribes and Pharisees and all the “upright” people in Israel so that they could see that they needed to learn that same mercy and know it themselves. It was that mercy that reached Matthew.  It was that mercy that reached Paul and lifted the veil from his eyes.  And it was that mercy, made manifest in Jesus, that both Paul and Matthew proclaimed.  It was this mercy that's at the centre of the Gospel that Matthew wrote to his people.  And it's this same mercy that Paul preached.  In today's Epistle from 2 Corinthians 4, he writes that it's this mercy that drives him forward despite all the obstacles.  “The ‘god' of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they won't see the light of the gospel of the glory of the Messiah, who is God's image.”  So what's the solution?  Paul writes, “We don't proclaim ourselves, you see, but Jesus the Messiah as Lord…because the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,' has shone in our hearts, to produce the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus the Messiah.” Brothers and Sisters, Paul—and Matthew, for that matter—knew that it wouldn't be gimmicks or tricks or fancy speaking or trying to make God's word palatable to sinners that would lift the veil from the eyes of unbelievers.  It would be the proclamation of the good news about Jesus.  That light—the glory of God in the face of the Messiah as Paul describes it—that light met Matthew in the darkness of his tollbooth.  That light met Paul on the road to Damascus.  And it lifted the veil.  It dispelled the darkness.  It cast out the ‘god' of this world who enslaves us to sin and death and makes us to think there's no hope of escape.  The light of the glory of God revealed in the good news of Jesus the Messiah is the answer and the only answer.  It's our hope and our only hope.  We too often try those other things.  We water down God's word to try to make it less offensives.  We try gimmicks or we try programmes.  But Brothers and Sisters, we should know better.  The Lord has promised that one day the knowledge of his glory will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea and that will happen because and only because his people have been faithful to proclaim his glory revealed in Jesus the Messiah who died and rose again. Brothers and Sisters, don't be afraid.  Don't question whether it'll work or not.  If the light of the gospel could tear down the veil that once had you blinded, if it could break the chains of sin that once bound you, it will tear down the veils that blind and it will break the chains that bind the rest of the world.  Just proclaim it.  Jesus has died and Jesus has risen, not just for you or for me or for holy people, but for sinners—for everyone.  He holds out his hand to us wherever we are and invites us to leave it all behind, to follow him, and to rise to new life. Let's pray: O almighty God, whose beloved Son called Matthew from his tollbooth to be an apostle and evangelist: Set us free from the chains of our sins to follow and to proclaim your Son Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

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‬Have you ever wondered if your past—what you've done or what's been done to you—disqualifies‬ you from being truly known and loved? Jesus sees you fully and deeply, and still calls you to‬ follow him. Like Matthew, you're invited to leave behind what's broken and step into a life filled‬ with love, purpose, and belonging. Jesus is someone worth losing everything for—because in‬ him, you gain what truly matters.

Have you ever wondered if your past—what you've done or what's been done to you—disqualifies‬ you from being truly known and loved? Jesus sees you fully and deeply, and still calls you to‬ follow him. Like Matthew, you're invited to leave behind what's broken and step into a life filled‬ with love, purpose, and belonging. Jesus is someone worth losing everything for—because in‬ him, you gain what truly matters.

Carl and Mike come back and get into some Falcons talk and react to comments by Harry Douglas and Greg Cosell. In regards to Douglas' comments, he mentions Falcons coaching staff getting Matthew Stafford vibes from Michael Penix Jr. and he believes that with the receiving core Atlanta has they will be a dangerous team, especially if Kyle Pitts is anything close to what has been expected of him.

Like Matthew, Mark, and John, the gospel of Luke was written to bring people to faith in Jesus Christ. Together, let's examine the author, audience, and background of Luke to better understand its unique and valuable perspective on Jesus. We'll also observe the central role of the Holy Spirit throughout Luke's gospel and discuss the impact of a Spirit-empowered life on our discipleship today. 

The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Like... Evan Aldridge Passage: Matthew 13:31-33 June 8, 2025 www.clearcreekcoc.org

Matthew left everything to follow Jesus. Like Matthew, our past doesn't have to be our future and can often be a platform for ministry.

We wrap up our PRAY series with a message from Pastor Leo Peralta on the Pharisee and the tax collector in Luke 18. It was a strong reminder that when we come to God in prayer, it has to start with humility. More than anything, prayer is about seeking God's heart—especially for those who are lost. Like Matthew 6:33 says, 'Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.'

In hour four, running through props and odds for tonight's Game 1 in both the NHL and NBA. Is Matthew Tkachuk due? Trying to figure out which Dolphins players would want to play for Team USA's Flag Football Olympic team. Plus, a Mt Rushmore of Super Sonics and reminiscing about the Aventura Mall food court before it became bougie.

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Welcome back to Truth Worth Living, where we seek to understand God's Word so we can live in God's will. Today, we take a look at Matthew, also known as Levi. If you're a fan of The Chosen, you might know Matthew as the quirky, neurotic, and OCD disciple who struggles with being ostracized due to his past. While this creative depiction captures some relational tension, the truth is that scripture tells us very little about Matthew as a person. What we do know about Matthew comes from his own account in the Gospel of Matthew:

That's my mantra for the week - "Be more like Matthew McConaughey".In today's episode I run through some of my favourite quotes from his INSANE book Green Lights........ I CAN NOT tell you how awesome that audio book is. Link below to one of his motivational videos I've been watching on repeat this week.Alright, Alright, Alright.........Much Love,Abbiexhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YwQwVIaNZgSupport the showEvery Monday, Wednesday, Friday Morning.x

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God can use anyone, no matter their past or how small their talents may seem. Like Matthew, who went from being despised to writing one of the Gospels, we're called to accept Jesus' love and use our gifts to make a difference. You're never too young or too broken for God to do something amazing through you! Let's discover how Jesus can use us right where we are.

Do you feel like you get stuck when it comes to making decisions? If you want to seek God first in your business but struggle to hear His voice or discern His plans, that's a normal thing. An entry in my current devotional -  My Upmost for His Highest - by Oswald Chambers, is the inspso for this episode. Chambers had an outlook on seeing things clearly in our minds and of course, my brain went to how we apply this in entrepreneurship. If you're ready to find clarity in your business decisions you will love this episode!  I can't even say how many times I have run ahead of God and made bad decisions, but I also can't even say how many times I've sat stuck and unmoving to make a decision because I was waiting for total clarity.  Like Matthew 11:25 reminds us- think like a child, rely on Him. the term “sheep” has a negative stigma as does the word “obey.” But be humble, and if you believe that God has your best interest at heart and that you cannot fail with him, why wouldn't you surrender it all and follow Him?  Enjoy! XOXO, Beth   P.S. connect with me in my FREE, PRIVATE, FB group here.  Book your 1:1 Mentorship Call TODAY! Email me anytime - bnygard@revivalbsls.com  Follow me on IG (although I'm not there much!) @revivalbco   

He tells stories for a living. He gets paid by the world's biggest brands to create stories for them. He's won Moth StorySLAM (a storytelling competition in NYC) a record 59 times. There is no better storyteller in the world than Matthew Dicks.Every founder knows storytelling is a critical skill. But 95% of founders I meet are terrible storytellers. They overcomplicate, they include too much information, they try to convince with data. Like Matthew says, "Most of what people say in business is forgettable". Whether you want to close customers, investors or employees, you need to stand out and be remembered. And the best way to do that is to tell compelling stories that resonate.Here's how to do it.Why you should listenWhy the key being remembered is being differentHow to use stories to stand out and resonate with customers, investors and employees Learn how to tell an effective story that is relatable, creates suspense, and includes personal connections.How to use personal stories to sell more product. Why you often shouldn't start a story at the beginning.Keywordsstorytelling, business, relatability, suspense, personal connection, Slack, Salesforce, communication, connection, simplicity, contrast, value proposition, trustTimestamps(00:00:00) Intro(00:02:52) A Story About Why Storytelling is Important(00:11:18) Deconstructing the Story(00:15:07) Keeping a Story in Present Tense(00:16:58) Start With Location and Action(00:20:41) When to Tell a Story Chronologically(00:28:13) The Story for Slack(00:35:33) Making a Pitch with No Data(00:41:51) It's not B2B or B2C-- it's H2H(00:47:57) The Goal is to be Remembered(00:52:23) Use Truth in Your Story for Relatability(00:55:11) Making up stories on the fly for portfolio companiesSend me a message to let me know what you think!

The New Testament tells us the story of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and the spread of Christianity. This overview of its message will help you understand the New Testament.--The PursueGOD Truth podcast is the “easy button” for making disciples – whether you're looking for resources to lead a family devotional, a small group at church, or a one-on-one mentoring relationship. Join us for new episodes every Tuesday and Friday. Find resources to talk about these episodes at pursueGOD.org.Help others go "full circle" as a follower of Jesus through our 12-week Pursuit series.Click here to learn more about how to use these resources at home, with a small group, or in a one-on-one discipleship relationship.Got questions or want to leave a note? Email us at podcast@pursueGOD.org.Donate Now --The New Testament tells us the story of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. It then describes the spread of Christianity. It ends looking forward to Jesus' return and his future reign. In order to help you understand the New Testament, we've put together this overview of its message, and how the message relates to the books of the New Testament.Jesus came to earth to fulfill God's promises.As we learned in the last episode, in the Old Testament, God had made a promise to a man named Abraham: the promise that God would save the entire world from sin and its bitter effects. Sin alienates people from God and calls for his just condemnation. Sin brings death and trouble into the world. Yet when the Old Testament ended, God had not finished this part of the promise. He hadn't yet rescued and redeemed the world. That's what Jesus' coming was all about. He came as the fulfillment of the promise to Abraham, as well as many other promises in the Old Testament. The very first verse in the New Testament is rooted in the fact that Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promise.Matthew 1:1 (NLT) This is the record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of David and of Abraham. The coming of Jesus fulfills the story of the Old Testament. That's why, as Christians, it is so important to read the Old Testament, because it tells us everything God was doing until the coming of Jesus. It also provides a context to understand the death of Jesus and his resurrection. Jesus died and rose again to save people from their sins.Jesus came to this earth to die on the cross for our sins. He did a lot of other important things, but Jesus' most important action was to die in our place, on the cross, for our sins, so that we could be rescued. This is the emphasis of the Gospels, the four books that appear first in the New Testament. The Gospels are accounts of Jesus' life. The first, Matthew, was written to tell Jewish people how Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah. Matthew presents Jesus as an authoritative teacher, including five large blocks of Jesus' messages. The second, Mark, provides a vivid, dramatic overview of Jesus' life. He emphasizes what Jesus did more than what he said, pointing to his identity as the suffering Son of God who offers himself as a sacrifice for sins. Luke traveled with the apostle Paul. His gospel stresses that Jesus is the Savior for all people, including the lowly and marginalized. Jesus brings the promise of rescue to all ethnic groups. Like Matthew, John was an eyewitness of Jesus' ministry. His is the most...

The New Testament tells us the story of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and the spread of Christianity. This overview of its message will help you understand the New Testament.--The PursueGOD Truth podcast is the “easy button” for making disciples – whether you're looking for resources to lead a family devotional, a small group at church, or a one-on-one mentoring relationship. Join us for new episodes every Tuesday and Friday. Find resources to talk about these episodes at pursueGOD.org.Help others go "full circle" as a follower of Jesus through our 12-week Pursuit series.Click here to learn more about how to use these resources at home, with a small group, or in a one-on-one discipleship relationship.Got questions or want to leave a note? Email us at podcast@pursueGOD.org.Donate Now --The New Testament tells us the story of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. It then describes the spread of Christianity. It ends looking forward to Jesus' return and his future reign. In order to help you understand the New Testament, we've put together this overview of its message, and how the message relates to the books of the New Testament.Jesus came to earth to fulfill God's promises.As we learned in the last episode, in the Old Testament, God had made a promise to a man named Abraham: the promise that God would save the entire world from sin and its bitter effects. Sin alienates people from God and calls for his just condemnation. Sin brings death and trouble into the world. Yet when the Old Testament ended, God had not finished this part of the promise. He hadn't yet rescued and redeemed the world. That's what Jesus' coming was all about. He came as the fulfillment of the promise to Abraham, as well as many other promises in the Old Testament. The very first verse in the New Testament is rooted in the fact that Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promise.Matthew 1:1 (NLT) This is the record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of David and of Abraham. The coming of Jesus fulfills the story of the Old Testament. That's why, as Christians, it is so important to read the Old Testament, because it tells us everything God was doing until the coming of Jesus. It also provides a context to understand the death of Jesus and his resurrection. Jesus died and rose again to save people from their sins.Jesus came to this earth to die on the cross for our sins. He did a lot of other important things, but Jesus' most important action was to die in our place, on the cross, for our sins, so that we could be rescued. This is the emphasis of the Gospels, the four books that appear first in the New Testament. The Gospels are accounts of Jesus' life. The first, Matthew, was written to tell Jewish people how Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah. Matthew presents Jesus as an authoritative teacher, including five large blocks of Jesus' messages. The second, Mark, provides a vivid, dramatic overview of Jesus' life. He emphasizes what Jesus did more than what he said, pointing to his identity as the suffering Son of God who offers himself as a sacrifice for sins. Luke traveled with the apostle Paul. His gospel stresses that Jesus is the Savior for all people, including the lowly and marginalized. Jesus brings the promise of rescue to all ethnic groups. Like Matthew, John was an eyewitness of Jesus' ministry. His is the most...

Do you know a child who thinks too much of stuff and not enough of people?  Disciple that child to be like Matthew and follow Jesus, bringing others.  Subscribe to the Christ for Disciplers Podcast to learn more...  

The debate pod returns this week as the crew gets heated while discussing the latest in the Johnathan Majors case, Foreign women vs American women and the increase of "Passport Bros," Adam 22's latest reality show, and more! Tune in and lock in.

Friends fans of all ages are mourning the death of Matthew Perry, who played Chandler Bing on the long-running sitcom. But is Friends what Perry wanted to be remembered for?Hasan Minhaj has clapped back at a New Yorker article that found inaccuracies and embellishments in stories he's told in comedy specials. Minhaj published a 20-minute fact check video of The New Yorker's fact check of him — and we're wading through the entrails.And hear from Jessica Yu, director of Quiz Lady, a new comedy starring Sandra Oh, Awkwafina and Will Ferrell; and Xavier Ho, ABC Top 5 Arts resident, who's got gaming tips for non gamers.

Jesus - Four Pen Portraits  We are on Day 2 of our adventure, looking together at the life of the most amazing person in human history - Jesus Christ of Nazareth. What the Gospels are! In the part of the Bible, we call the New Testament, we have four accounts of the life of Jesus Christ. They are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are called Gospels. But what is a Gospel? They are called Gospels, because they gave substance to the ‘Gospel' or ‘Good News' as described by Paul in Romans 1:16: “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel. I see it as the very power of God working for the salvation of everyone who believes it, both Jew and Greek.” We know that Jesus Christ during his time on earth wrote nothing. Yet the stories about him were preserved and passed on by Christian teachers and evangelists. For the first thirty years or so, these stories were collated and stored together. That would explain the similarity in the four accounts of Jesus' life. The Gospels are not an exhaustive biographical detail of all that Jesus Christ did. Similarly they are also not diaries reflecting a daily account of Jesus' life. Rather, they are selective accounts of His life, and were used by His disciples when preaching about Him. Therefore they would represent the theology of the disciples, as each story about is Jesus is told. That is why they are trustworthy accounts, as well as rooting the life of Jesus Christ in first century Judaism and the Greco-Roman world. The first three of our Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke are what are called the synoptic Gospels. This is based on their great similarity and possibly use of a common source. Mark is probably the first Gospel as it is shorter in length than Matthew or Luke and it would appear that Matthew and Luke used Mark as a guide and elaborated where required. Matthew, was a disciple of Jesus Christ and writes from his own experiences. Luke writes for the experiences of eye witnesses. Apart from one exception, Mark wrote none of the great discourses of Matthew such as the Sermon on the Mount, nor does Mark show the great parables that Luke does, such as the Good Samaritan. Luke does share large portions of Mark and quite often verbatim, and with a greater use of the Greek language. Our fourth Gospel, the Gospel of John meanwhile, while still telling about Jesus' ministry, has vastly different story content. Like Matthew, John also was a disciple and close friend of Jesus Christ. Indeed, John is called the apostle whom Jesus loved. In his Gospel, John reveals Jesus talking about himself much more often than in the other Gospel accounts. For this reason, John was probably written later than the synoptic Gospels. Come back tomorrow for Part 3 of our series AGOG, as we continue to look at the life of this most extraordinary person in all human history – Jesus of Nazareth. Tap or click here to save this as an audio mp3 file

Today we will be taking a look at the book of Matthew (SUNDAY 06/11/23) Today's Sermon will look at Matthew 15:21-28 "What does great faith look like?"

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Covenant Presbyterian Church (The Barn)

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It's an Earthquake | Rev. David Pileggi Has the resurrection of Jesus become an abstract doctrine for us, or something that we only mention at a funeral? Like Matthew's earth-shattering account, let us refuse to domesticate that most important event, and let's ensure that it shapes our lives and sends us fearlessly out into the world to make disciples. Readings: Resurrection Sunday Jeremiah 31:1-6 Acts 10: 34-43 Matthew 28:1-10 Blessed by our teachings? Consider saying thank you with a small (or large) donation. www.christchurchjerusalem.org/donate/ 
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The Bible is large and can be complicated. It can have complicated verses as well.  Like Matthew 6:15.  But can we do anything to keep ourselves out of Heaven? Should we forgive and is it different than forgetting? Listen to this sermon to find out. 

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Lindsay Reyes

Jesus was asked about what it will be like when He returns. In this passage He describes what we can expect to see when He returns. As in the days of Noah, the destruction will come suddenly. Jesus gives us ten signs that will be seen by all people on the earth when He returns.  This session explains these verses in detail.  Our comfort is that Jesus has promised us that His words will never be forgotten.  What is going to happen when Jesus returns?Will it be possible for someone to miss Jesus' return? What is “the day of the Lord?”What happens when everyday events get our eyes off of eternal things? Support the show

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Katherine Boatwright

Patrick Boatwright

Will Thomas

Rev. Rachel Carosiello continues our sermon series, "Get Outside".

Fitzpatrick explained that he was been working with his coach, Mike Walker, and biomechanist Sasho Mackenzie on a system called The Stack. Without diving too deep, it uses a speed stick and an app to improve sequencing and swing speed. “I'll be honest, it's worked wonders,” Fitzpatrick said Sunday. In this episode, we learn just what this team did before the US Open victory and what they will continue to do in the future!

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