Tag: Gospel of Matthew
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What Does the Eye See?
This is a message I shared with Jamestown Friends Meeting in Jamestown, NC on June 11, 2023. Matthew 9:9-13 “As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him. And as he sat at dinner…
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Sermon: The Birth of a New, Contrast Community
This is a message I gave at First Friends Meeting in Greensboro on December 22, 2019 following Revelation 12 and Matthew 1:18ff. Here is the recorded version of the message. Rev. 12:1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman eclothed with fthe sun, with fthe moon under her feet, and on her head…
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We Are The Stargazers (Matthew 2:1-12)
Herod and The Theologians Our passage this morning presents two contrasting groups of people discerning the will of God. King Herod and the Theologians on one side and the “three wise men” or Magi on the other. The arrival of Jesus makes for a very real, very large scale, as in cosmically-sized, conflict that is…