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...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 12:43-45 wherein we observe Jesus’ teaching on the danger of an empty house. When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none.  Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty,...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 11:2-6 wherein we find a companion in John the baptist and are moved to humility before our perfect Lord. Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”  And Jesus answered them, “Go...