Matthew

Discipleship & Obedience You Did No Harm. Did You Do Good? We can let someone suffer and still believe we did nothing wrong. From the Good Samaritan to Eli’s silence, Scripture shows that the good we knowingly… Discipleship & Obedience The Prayer That Does Not Avail Much We can pray earnestly and still not receive what we ask. Scripture shows why: pleading cannot replace repentance, forgiveness does not cancel every consequence, and prayer… Discipleship & Obedience Our Need Gives Us Reason to Ask, Not Authority to Decide Our need is a real reason to pray, but it is not a reason for God to obey. Even the sinless Son prayed within submission to… Discipleship & Obedience You May Have Forgotten What You Sowed—God Has Not Time can make us believe that what we once sowed has disappeared. Scripture says otherwise. Evil is not forgotten because its consequence is delayed, and faithfulness… Discipleship & Obedience The Delay Is Not the End A silent field is not an empty field. Scripture teaches that there is often a long interval between sowing and reaping. Delayed consequence does not mean… Discipleship & Obedience The Sin of What We Leave Undone We usually think of sin as something we actively do. But Jesus also confronts what we fail to do. Matthew 25:45 exposes a quieter form of… Discipleship & Obedience Obedience Includes the Good You Refuse to Do Disobedience is not always an obvious act of rebellion. Sometimes it appears as inaction: the apology never given, the mercy withheld, the truth never spoken, the… Death, Resurrection & Eternal Hope What You Cannot Take With You We enter the world with nothing, and we leave it the same way. Ecclesiastes 5:15 exposes the illusion that possessions, achievement, and accumulation can become permanent… Death, Resurrection & Eternal Hope Death Reveals What Was Never Yours to Keep Death exposes the temporary nature of possession. We may call money, property, status, achievements, and even time “ours,” yet every one of them is held only… Discipleship & Obedience You Can Predict Your Future! The future is not completely hidden from us. Scripture repeatedly shows that direction produces destination: what we trust, obey, sow, practise, and remain connected to will… Discipleship & Obedience Your Direction Predicts Your Destination The future is not completely hidden from us. While we cannot know every event that will happen, Scripture shows that direction produces consequence. What we repeatedly… Sin, Temptation & Spiritual Warfare The Temptation Temptation rarely announces itself as destruction. It presents an alternative that appears reasonable, desirable, or easier than obedience. From Jesus in the wilderness to the choices…