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Genesis 24 Ryan: Whenever I read the Old Testament, I am always struck by how people respond to God or His presence versus in today’s American society. For example, when Rebekah told her brother Laban about her encounter with Abraham’s servant, Laban refers to the servant as “you who are blessed by the Lord,” and [...]
Genesis 22-23 Ryan: There are so many parallels between the story of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac and the death of Jesus on the cross that it’s almost like God is trying to hit us over the head with it. If you’ve attended church much at all, then you’ve likely heard the story eleventy billion times, [...]
Testing Jesus Now having made his official entry into the Jews’ holiest city, the Pharisees and Sadducees–who were the two most prominent religious groups at the time–were trying to find ways to “trap” Jesus by getting him to give wrong answers to very specific “trick” questions. First, the Sadducees (who don’t believe in the resurrection) [...]
Last=First, First=Last Our reading today is relatively short: only one parable. This parable is very important and can be read on many levels, however, so don’t let its briefness throw you. In this parable, a farm owner goes out in the morning and hires day laborers to work his fields. They agree on a price [...]
The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant Today’s reading is a continuation of yesterday’s lesson about how to live like a Christian. We left off yesterday with Jesus telling his disciples how you handle a brother or sister who has a sinning problem. After this, Peter comes up and asks Jesus how many times we should [...]
John’s disciples After Jesus finished giving his mission to his apostles, he went and preached in the towns that they were from. Word reached John the Baptist, who was now sitting in prison, about the things that Jesus was doing. He sent some of his disciples to go ask Jesus whether or not he was [...]
Jesus forgives sin Apparently, Jesus did what the people asked of him in the end of chapter 8, because he got back in the boat and went back to Capernaum (v. 1). He is then brought to a paralyzed man lying on a mat. Evidently, during Jesus’ time (and probably before) people often believed that [...]
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