Jesus was invited to a religious leader’s home. While eating (they eat reclining on pillows on the floor with their feet behind them), a woman of ill repute heard that Jesus was there, and she started to weep. She poured an expensive perfume on His feet and...
Jesus challenges us not to worry about this life or what we will eat or wear. He tells us life is more important than food and our bodies are more important than clothes. He reminds us of the obvious in Matthew 6:27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his...
Treasure this great bounty that pirates have hidden in the ground, which can be discovered by their special map. Jesus speaks to this He tells us: Matthew 6:19-20 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break...
Jesus had just taught them the Lord’s prayer. He told them instead of babbling and saying many words, they should pray to God, remember who He is, and ask for help enough for today. Keep us from temptation and Satan and his designs. But Jesus said some challenging...
Jesus told them that unless they were more righteous than their religious leaders, they wouldn’t make it to heaven. This seems impossible. How can we be more righteous than even the most religious person? What was Jesus getting at? Was He talking only about us...
Jesus was teaching the people in parables. He told of the wheat and the weeds and how, at the harvest, the weeds would be separated and burned in the fire. He said of the yeast put into the dough and about the tiny mustard seed, which, when fully grown, is extensive....
