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  • How to Treat Others

    We use “judge” in two different ways. On the one hand, we use it to mean “condemn” or “criticize.” For example, when one of your friends says they don’t want your judgment, this is the meaning they have in mind. On the other hand, we use it to mean “evaluate” or “interpret.” If someone tells…

  • Pretenders

    Every society has them, people who learned early that your image is more important than your real character. They care about what people think, and not just any people, but people they don’t even like, people they despise, people to whom they believe themselves superior. So they play a part, pretending to be a good…

  • Jesus and the Law

    Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until…

  • Religious Leaders

    Matthew doesn’t say what motivated the Pharisees and Sadducees to seek out John the Baptist. He only tells us what John said to them. “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham…

  • Joseph the Dreamer

    The birth narrative in Matthew is told entirely from Joseph’s point of view, and like his namesake in the final 21 chapters of Genesis, Joseph is a dreamer of dreams. Through dreams God communicates with him, telling him to take Mary as his wife, to flee the murderous cruelty of Herod, to return to Israel,…

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