“By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. ‘This is a remote place,’ they said, ‘and it’s already very late. Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.’ But he answered, ‘You give them something […]
“As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. ‘Follow me,’ he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.” (Matthew 9:9) This interaction between Jesus and Matthew is pretty shocking. Tax collectors in the time of Jesus were seen as crooked thieves. These were the […]
Hebrews 9 and 10 are incredible chapters of Scripture. Both chapters were written to show us how superior the sacrifice of Christ is in comparison to our old form of religion. Chapter 9 shows how the blood of animals could not achieve the cleansing that was ultimately needed. Chapter 10 shows us how ultimate, victorious, […]