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In the face of this relentless information storm, this is no time for Christians to give up on reading. We need to equip ourselves to weather this information storm, and The Fellowship of Ailbe wants to help.
As a mathematician, inventor, and ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, Mike Slay brings an analytical, conversational, and even whimsical approach to the daily study of God's Word.
Why are they so impressed this time?
They didn't say, "now."
This passage is easy as long as you duck the predestination issues.
Status doesn't impress Jesus.
but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves.
Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
Seeing a dead man sit up and talk is pretty scary.
Jesus sets His disciples up for their coming persecution with the beatitudes and the command to love their enemies. He points out that some people call Him Lord yet don’t do what He commands. A Centurion understands what the disciples do not. This teaches the true meaning of the word Lord.
What does this Centurion know that no one else knows?
In the face of this relentless information storm, this is no time for Christians to give up on reading. We need to equip ourselves to weather this information storm, and The Fellowship of Ailbe wants to help.