June 27 Paul begins his first letter to the church at Corinth with his standard greeting, blessing his readers with reminders of how often he prays for them. Similarly to how he quickly launched into his rebuke in Galatians, Paul turns to the Corinthian church and rebukes them for their many divisions and rivalries. He…
May 29 James draws sharp contrasts between pride and humility in Chapter 4. He begins by saying that our hearts are divided between the ways of God and our own, fleshly ways. The source behind all of this is pride. James even says that his readers are committing adultery because they aren’t fully devoted to…
April 25 Here in Luke 18:1-14, Jesus tells two parables concerning prayer. In the first, He said that a woman approached an unrighteous judge, begging him to grant her justice against her adversary. This man was a terrible judge. There was no fear of God or respect for people in him, and Jesus offered no…
March 16 Herod was a family name. It’s easy to be confused regarding the Herods because sometimes they were referred to simply as Herod. Herod the Great, Antipas’ father, was the one who had every two-year-old boy killed when the Magi asked about Jesus’ birth as the King of the Jews. (Matthew 2:16) I guess…
March 12 Jesus approached Levi as he sat in the tax office and invited him to follow Him. Immediately, Levi got up and followed Jesus, perhaps leaving money on the table. So, who was Levi? The name is Hebrew. We don’t know when he changed his name, but Levi was Matthew—the disciple who wrote the…
March 1 In Matthew 23, Jesus again unloads on the hypocritical Jewish leaders. This time, however, marks His fiercest rebuke in all of the Gospel accounts. For three years, the Lord has been merciful and gracious, offering them chance after chance to repent, take off their religious masks, and get real with God. Not only…
