Matthew 10:1-4 – The Answer to Jesus’s Prayer

Long before Scheherazade, Charles Heath, or Charles Dickens, Matthew penned a cliffhanger when he recorded Jesus’s words to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” If this was a movie from […] Read more

Matthew 8:1-17 – The Father’s Will, Part 1

In 1897 Charles Sheldon published the book In His Steps, in which he introduced a phrase that would become quite popular in the 20th and 21st centuries. The abbreviation of this phrase would adorn innumerable items such as t-shirts, bumper stickers, and rubber bracelets. Mr. Sheldon’s phrase, What Would Jesus […] Read more

On Earth as it is in Heaven.

Your kingdom come,Your will be done,On earth as it is in heaven. Jesus tells us that we should pray that God’s kingdom on earth would look like God’s kingdom in heaven. He tells us to pray that God’s will should be done on earth in the same way that God’s […] Read more