Matthew

Matthew writes to God’s people and walks them on a journey that will take them from where they are to be Disciple Makers. This is the 2nd of 27 devotional plans walking us through the book of Matthew. Hearing God speak or doing what God requires is more difficult than we realise – because life can be complicated. Watch how people do it.

Hearing And Obeying - Disciple Makers Series #2

The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus' most inspiring and challenging description of the Christian counterculture. John Stott's teaching on this timeless text shows how its value system, ethical standard, religious devotion and network of relationships clearly distinguish it from both the nominal church and the secular world. 

Reading the Sermon on the Mount With John Stott

God is perfect and we are not. How do we continue to strive toward being more like Christ when we know we will continually fail? Let's look at Matthew 4 and 5 in the Streetlights New Testament.

How to Keep Going When I Fail

Have you noticed how often Jesus asked questions when he was teaching? Have you ever wondered why? Jesus knew the transformative potential of a great question! This plan provides you three unique study questions for each reading, joyfully offered to help you meet God in his Word with greater perceptivity, understanding, and power.

Questions For Matthew

New executives tend to have a narrow view of business. They are accustomed to the limited responsibilities of a single employee. 

However, as an executive, they have to be prepared for all of the aspects of a business. Understanding the whole picture of any organization is critical to having the breadth of knowledge necessary to make wise decisions. This series will help you understand the Biblical foundation for how successful executives do work differently.

What Successful Executives Do Differently

Christians often have this misconception that the Old Testament Law is irrelevant, but that was not Jesus’ approach to the Law. After establishing the significance of the Law in Matthew 5:17-20, Jesus proceeded to expound on how specific laws were meant to be lived out. In fact, Jesus actually intensified them to reveal their heart requirements. The truth is, beyond the surface observance of external rules, the Law was meant to point God’s people towards underlying attitudes required of them.

Hope Singapore: Beyond The Law

My favorite way to focus on the “red stuff” in the New Testament—the words of Jesus—is to ask a question I received from a popular magazine “What’s one thing you know for sure?” As a lifelong journalist, I’ve interviewed hundreds of people over the years, and I think this question is the best single interview question I’ve ever heard. So I co-opted this question, morphing it into this: “Based on this Scripture passage alone, what’s one thing I know for sure about Jesus?” Let’s read through one chapter from Matthew’s Gospel that’s loaded with red stuff—chapter 15—quickly determining what we know for sure about Jesus as we scan through the things he said and did. We’ll sometimes read the same passage but answer the question differently.

What Do We Know For Sure About Jesus? 

Are you weary and tired? Rest doesn’t just happen, nor is it found in a Netflix binge. In Matthew 11, Jesus gives us the path to soul-deep rest. In this 5-day reading plan, Brittany Rust shares the foundation, two keys, and sustenance for genuine rest.

Rest for the Weary

This six day devotional is geared towards helping you to engage with scripture in quiet reflection. This series offers a guided experience that is broken up in four parts: prepare, read, reflect, breathe.  These can be used in facilitating group/family engagement or for your personal time of devotion. We would like to invite you to engage with this written meditation and the accompanying audio. 
