matthew Archive

  • happy three kings day

    happy three kings day

    i hope everyone had a happy three kings day. for those that don’t normally celebrate three kings day (3 K day), it’s traditionally the 12th day of Christmas and recognized as the day that the 3 kings visit the baby Jesus bearing gifts of gold,...

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  • making disciples of all nations?

    making disciples of all nations?

    I refer to Matthew 28:19-20, what’s known as “The Great Commission,” a lot. It’s where Jesus said to the disciples, “I have been given complete authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name...

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  • Carrying our pain and sorrows

    Carrying our pain and sorrows

    1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. ~~Isaiah 53:1-5, NIV

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  • taking a closer look at the Lord’s Prayer…

    taking a closer look at the Lord’s Prayer…

    Matthew 6:9 “This, then, is how you should pray: ”'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread. 12 Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. ~~Matthew 6:9-13, New International Version

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  • Genesis 39-40

    Genesis 39-40

    verse for reflection: The LORD was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.—Genesis 39:2a, NIV

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