Today’s Reading: Matthew 7:6 (HCSB) Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them with their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces. Today’s Question: Is there ever a time that you should not share the Gospel with someone? Today’s Commentary: As Christians, we are to shareContinue reading “When Jesus Resorts to Name Calling (Lesson #48- Summer School with Jesus)”
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When Christians Can Judge Others (Lesson #47- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 7:3-5 (HCSB) Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the logContinue reading “When Christians Can Judge Others (Lesson #47- Summer School with Jesus)”
“Don’t Judge Me!” (Lesson #46- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 7:1-2 (HCSB) Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged. For with the judgment you use, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Today’s Question: What is your response when you see someone else entangled in sin? Today’s Commentary: Christians, watch theContinue reading ““Don’t Judge Me!” (Lesson #46- Summer School with Jesus)”
What Are You Seeking? (Lesson #45- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:3-34 (HCSB) But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Today’s Question: Today’s Commentary: What do you worry about? The answerContinue reading “What Are You Seeking? (Lesson #45- Summer School with Jesus)”
The Opposite of Worry (Lesson #44- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:30-32 (HCSB) O you of little faith. Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ Forthe Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. Today’s Question: Is there something that is beyond your controlContinue reading “The Opposite of Worry (Lesson #44- Summer School with Jesus)”
How Much does Worry-Free Living Cost (Lesson #43- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:27 (ESV) And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? Today’s Question: How would you rate the supply in your cupboard and/or your closet: too little, too much, or just right? Today’s Commentary: Life is expensive. When my wife, Angela, and I sitContinue reading “How Much does Worry-Free Living Cost (Lesson #43- Summer School with Jesus)”
Eat, Drink, and Put on Some Clothes (Lesson #42- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:25-26, 28-30 (HCSB) This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the sky: They don’t sowContinue reading “Eat, Drink, and Put on Some Clothes (Lesson #42- Summer School with Jesus)”
How to Cure the Disease of Worrying (Lesson #41- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:25a (HCSB) This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life… Today’s Question: How often do you worry about the issues of your life? Today’s Commentary: When you read the words, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” many of you will have a great disdain for me for the rest of the day.Continue reading “How to Cure the Disease of Worrying (Lesson #41- Summer School with Jesus)”
The “Stuff” People are Made Of (Lesson #40- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:24 (HCSB) No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money. Today’s Question: Do you own your possessions or do your possessions own you?Continue reading “The “Stuff” People are Made Of (Lesson #40- Summer School with Jesus)”
How’s the Vision of Your Mind’s Eye? (Lesson #39- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:22-23 (HCSB) The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness—how deep is that darkness! Today’s Question:Continue reading “How’s the Vision of Your Mind’s Eye? (Lesson #39- Summer School with Jesus)”
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