In the Beatitudes, Jesus gives us a glimpse of how, in God, things are turned upside down. Blessed are the poor. In contemporary thinking, no-one wants to be poor. Give God’s abundant blessing to someone poor, then there is joy. The same could be true of someone who is wealthy, but without God. The blessing,…
And when Jesus heard . . . (of the death of John the Baptist) He withdrew to a solitary (quiet) place. When our hearts are broken, do we seek solace alone? People probably followed Jesus for a number of reasons: seeking comfort, seeking a miracle, just to be with Him, just to be with the…
Matthew is a teaching gospel. Rev. Gary Kennedy introduces Jesus as a teacher by reading from the Gospel of Luke 4:14, 16, 18-19, and then verse 21 where Jesus stated “Today this scripture has been fulfilled . . .” Then in Luke 5:17 “On one of those days, as he was teaching, . . .and…
