And he shall reign for ever
This coming Sunday, I am preaching on the closing verses of Matthew's gospel, Matthew 28:16-20.
Here's R T France: ... Enjoy!
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Light of the world
John 8:12 is a familiar verse. It's one of Jesus' famous "I am" sayings. “I am the light of the world”, or
So what's the problem? He's alive!
People sometimes worry that the 4 Gospels don't tell the resurrection story in exactly the same way. This is to worry needlessly. If the 4 Gospels told the resurrection story in contradictory ways, that would be a different matter. As it is, we simply have a difference in perspective. Look at the story from different angles, you include different details and stress different things. It couldn't be otherwise. The four Gospels are not an assortment of favourite deeds of Jesus, thrown together haphazardly.
Follow that star tonight, Bethlehem
Doug Wilson's post on the star followed by the wise men is most thought-provoking and insightful.
Enjoy!
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Psalms and the Lord's Prayer
How do we pray the Psalms as new covenant Christians? What difference does it make that they have been prayed before — now not just by king David but by king Jesus?
Is there any mileage in seeing the Lord's Prayer as a key part of this answer?
Matthew 18:15-20, the sinning brother, in context
See my earlier post weighing the textual options for Matthew 18:15.
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Matthew 18 - about church discipline?
Enjoying R T France’s commentary on Matthew
Reading him on Matthew 18:15-17.
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The world will be better than you'd think if you look at it now
I haven’t posted for ages – partly very busy, partly nothing to say.
But I thought I’d post briefly now, because this has encouraged me.
The parable of the weeds and the wheat in Matthew 13:24-30 shows (I think) that the world is a mixed place – it contains true disciples and it contains unbelievers. We need to wait until the end of the age to see truly who is who.
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France on Palm Sunday (Matthew 21:1-11)
Doing some work on Matthew’s account of the first Palm Sunday, I’m struck again by how helpful R T France’s commentary on Matthew
Some highlights:
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Did Matthew know how to read the Old Testament?
Doing some work on the birth narrative in Matthew at the moment, and enjoying the recently published commentary on Matthew
He has a brilliant (if long) paragraph arguing that Matthew was not a poor Old Testament handler at all, but knew exactly what he was doing. So brilliant, it’s worth quoting in full (from page 45)
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