When it comes to chapter 28--I know that conflict is the soul of story, and that happy things are good but hard to write about since...

Whenever I read through a gospel, I always dread this chapter--the one in which the trial and crucifixion of Jesus is described. I doubt...

The chapter today is long and there is a lot going on. It is also very famous, and reading through it feel like passing over familiar...

As with yesterday's passage, today's chapter has some anxiety inducing parables. Again, I can hear preachers and Bible study leaders from...

This is sort of the great apocalyptic passage of the New Testament. When I was young, we used to love reading this passage and...

This morning’s reading hits a bit different than usual. It’s a diatribe directed at the Pharisees and Jewish leaders, and it was one I...

The chapter this morning is full of puzzling passages--what does it mean that, "God is the god of the living, not the dead"? In fact this...

Each morning when I do my reading in Matthew, I come prayerfully, hoping that God will show me something new in the text. Most mornings I...

An incident I was involved with yesterday and an article I read have me thinking about the concept of humiliation and the relationship to...

This chapter today is very familiar to me. I have made extensive study of what's said in the first half of the chapter about marriage and...

As I approach the text this morning, the thing that puzzles me is right up front. Jesus famously takes a child and says, "...whoever...

Honestly, the miracle at the end of Matthew 17 has to be one of the oddest in the Gospels. All the others feel like the are big, helpful...

This read through Matthew has certainly been striking for me. I've always known that Jesus is not particularly "chill" and there are a...

The opening verses of chapter 15 really strike me this morning, as I look at them in the different (to me) language that Ruden uses. The...