The Watchmaker's Pulse

This week our scripture readings include Matthew 20-25, Mark 10-13, Luke 18-21, and John 12. Many of this week's passages follow the theme of reading the signs of the future. I want to focus on Jesus' teaching about this in Matthew 24. Read it below. Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his [...]

This week our passages for consideration are Matthew 19, Mark 10, Luke 10-18, and John 8-11. I want to continue considering a list of Jesus' claims to divinity that I began last week. Jesus made a number of statements beginning with the phrase "I am" which he deliberately chose to identify himself with God. "I [...]

This week I'll reference passages from Matthew 8-10, 13-18, Mark 6-9, Luke 9, and John 6-8. In Matthew 16:13-23 we find an interesting conversation between Jesus and his disciples. Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they [...]

This week's passages are John 5, Mark 2-5, Matthew 5-8, 11-13, and Luke 6-8. Jesus began his ministry when he was about 30 years old (Luke 3:23) in the region of Galilee. His basic message was "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel." (Mark [...]

This week we started reading chronologically through the New Testament with Matthew 1-4, 8-9, Mark 1-2, Luke 1-5, and John 1-4. The New Testament begins with the four biographical eyewitness accounts about Jesus. Each of these accounts is written from the perspective of one of Jesus' apostles and have very specific structures and goals. Matthew [...]