Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, Matthew 5:23 NABRE Jesus teaches about relationships and maintaining a loving approach to others, particularly those considered brothers and sisters in our community. Jesus is against contentious relationship between His followers,…
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If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him. Matthew 7:11 NABRE Jesus is teaching about the kind of Father we have in heaven. In order to help those…
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Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Matthew 6:8 NABRE Jesus teaches about prayer, an act of deepening our relationship with God. First Jesus warms His disciples off certain prayer practices common at the time and we still see today. Don’t pray…
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Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.” Matthew 9:15 NABRE God often expresses His relationship with Israel as a spousal relationship, God a bridegroom…
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He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Matthew 16:15 NABRE Jesus is known for asking questions and not often directly answering questions. We have this question from Jesus who is off with His disciples; who do you say I am. Scholars will tell us there…
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