As for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi.’ You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers. Matthew 23:8 NABRE Jesus is engaging adversaries in the temple courts, being challenged and responding. He addresses the hypocrisy of the religious leadership, including how they do more for show and sympathy…
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with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, Ephesians 4:2 NABRE Paul writing to the community at Ephesus addresses community versus individual living. Paul exhorts us to depend on the community, we should be united in Christ. We are united because we are one body,…
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Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3 NABRE His disciples ask Jesus, who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Jesus responds in an unusual way. Jesus wants the disciples to understand that power…
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Series Introduction This is week two of a six week series entitled “be with me.” This is the wish of Jesus for all of us and he specifically tells one of the men crucified alongside him that he will be with Jesus in paradise, that very day. What does it…
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Pride goes before disaster, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 NABRE Many see pride as the sin leading to many other sins. Pride changed an angel into Satan. (Isaiah 14:12-15) The fallen in these verses is viewed as Satan who challenges the very throne of God, saying,…
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