This Sunday's lectionary reading for Year A, Epiphany 3, is Matt 4.12–23. The epistle is 1 Cor 1.10–18, where Paul gets into the issues of factions and divisions. The video for that reading can be ...

Matthew (also known as Levi in the Gospels of Luke and Mark) was a Jewish tax collector, or publican, living in Capernaum. Tax collectors at that time were known as dishonest and corrupt people who ...

The image of God as our heavenly Father allows us to consider the unfathomable possibility that a close relationship with God is not only possible but available and one permeated by love.

Last Friday we began a brief look into the command Christ gave to His church, as recorded in Matthew 28:18-20, the command that has come to be known as “the Great Commission.” We discovered that, far ...

In my NT class this week we discussed the Gospel of Matthew, the ecclesial Gospel, which alone amongst the four Gospels actually uses the word “ekklesia,” or Church. We had some interesting ...

The Gospel of Matthew is concerned with the position of these early Christian churches within Israel, or in its relationship to what we call Judaism. And these are concerns that belong to the time ...

They went to a high mountain and worshiped him, although Matthew notes that some doubted. Jesus gives them some instructions and reassurance, this event has become known as the Great Commission. Jesus ...

The evangelist who composed the gospel of Matthew was probably a Jewish Christian, possibly a scribe. The historical evidence suggests that he wrote between 80 and 90 CE and addressed his work to a ...