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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that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. Matthew 5:45 NABRE Jesus challenges those listening to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them.…
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I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:20 NABRE Jesus is teaching about the law, He has not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it. While He wants His disciples to follow…
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Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf of bread, or a snake when he asks for a fish? Matthew 7:9-10 NABRE Sometimes the teaching of Jesus is so simple and clear no words need to be added. Therefore maybe I should…
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New Shoes Needed Tuesday I was driving past a location that serves lunchtime meals to those in need. It is a regular program and attracts various people in need including those who haven’t a home. Walking down the road was a man who I discovered is named Terrance. Terrance had…
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