Matthew 5-29-30 Podcast Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 5:29-30 wherein we see the seriousness with which Jesus deals with our sin. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.  And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better...

Matthew 4 1-4 Podcast Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 4:1-4 wherein we observe the leading of the Spirit and steadfastness of the Son in a moment of intense temptation. Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.  And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.  And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God,...

Matthew 3 7-9 Podcast Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 3:7-9 wherein we hear a prophet tell it like it is and remind us about our purpose. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?  Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.  And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We...

Matthew 2 19-23 Podcast Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 2:19-23 wherein we observe God working out His plan for Jesus through His servant Joseph. But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life are dead.”  And he rose and...

Matthew 1 18-21 Podcast Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Matthew 1:18-21 wherein we see God directing Joseph and are introduced to the soon-arriving Jesus. Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way.  When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.  And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling ...

Genesis 50 18-21 Podcast Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Genesis 50:18-21 wherein we see again Joseph’s great perspective and are reminded of God’s purpose in all things. His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”  But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?  As for you, you meant evil against me, but God...