Podcast: Play in new window | Download Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 18:4-6 wherein we see the seriousness of leading well the little ones. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.  Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 17:24-27 wherein we see the Son of the King paying tax to His subjects. When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?”  He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you ...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 16:21-23 wherein we observe a much needed rebuke given to passionate Christian. From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.  And Peter took him aside and began to...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 15:17-20 wherein Jesus teaches us about the kind of clean that truly matters. Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?  But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery,...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 14:13-14 wherein we see Jesus seeking quiet delivering compassion in a day of grieving. Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.  When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 13:47-50 wherein we hear of a great net to be drawn and a final judgment given. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.  When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad.  So it will be...