Gospel Readings: Matthew 22:1-14 Matthew 22:15-22 Matthew 22:23-33 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 22:1-14 Today’s reading brings to us another difficult parable which traditionally has been read as an allegory—the king is God who is inviting humanity—some humanity—to share in the
Gospel Readings: Matthew 21:23-27 Matthew 21:28-32 Matthew 21:33-46 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 21:23-27 Throughout Matthew’s Gospel, the question of authority has been hanging in the air. The reader has known since chapter 7 that it is Jesus, rather than
Gospel Readings: Matthew 21:1-11 Matthew 21:12-17 Matthew 21:18-22 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 21:1-11 The climax of Jesus journey, which began in the imperial city of Caesarea Philippi (M6 16:13, 21) north of Galilee takes place here as Jesus enters
Gospel Readings: Matthew 20:20-28 Matthew 20:29-34 Advent Readings: Isaiah 61:1-11 Luke 1:46-55 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 20:20-28 Our text today opens with “the mother of the sons of Zebedee” coming before Jesus to ask for positions of power
Gospel Readings: Matthew 19:16-30 Matthew 20:1-16 Matthew 20:17-19 Advent Reading: Psalm 85 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 19:16-30 Today’s reading begins with a man who comes to Jesus with a question—“Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal
Gospel Readings: Matthew 18:21-35 Matthew 19:1-12 Matthew 19:13-15 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 18:21-35 Peter’s question of forgiveness here frames a parable which is set in the world of the ruling bureaucracy and its practice of tax farming. High level
Gospel Readings: Matthew 18:1-10 Matthew 18:12-14 Matthew 18:15-20 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 18:1-10 With the disciples’ question, “Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Jesus begins a series of teachings which make up the fourth such discourse in
Gospel Readings: Matthew 17:14-21 Matthew 17:22-23 Matthew 17:24-27 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 17:14-21 This episode shows the disciples’ powerlessness to bring transformation because of their faltering allegiance to the reign of God. A boy is brought to Jesus by
Gospel Readings: Matthew 16:1-4 Matthew 16:5-12 Matthew 16:13-20 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 16:1-4 Jesus is approached by the Pharisees and Sadducees, who come “to test Jesus.” This recalls Matthew 4:1-11, where the same word (peirazó) is used to speak
Gospel Readings: Matthew 15:21-28 Matthew 15:29-31 Matthew 15:32-39 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 15:21-28 Today’s episode begins with Jesus in the district of Tyre and Sidon, where he is approached by a Canaanite woman who “came out and started shouting,