Matthew 8:18 – 10:42 After Jesus preached the “Sermon on the Mount” (Matthew 5-7), the people who heard what he had to say were overwhelmed by his teaching. They were so powerfully impacted because “he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law” (Matthew 7:28-29 NIV). Shortly thereafter, Jesus […]
Understand and trust
I once was leading a group session as a counselor at an adolescent treatment facility. There were about a dozen kids in the group. We were outside on a deck between two buildings. There were two brothers in the group – 16, 17 years old. One of them had been in the facility for several […]