Chapter 13 ⁽²⁸⁾

Passage Read: Revelation 13-14 Meditation Verse: 13:5 The Antichrist receives authority over all mankind only for forty-two months! During that time, he blasphemes God, he makes successful war on the saints, rules over all the nations, because all people who aren't recorded in the Book…

Passage Read: Hebrews 13 - James 1 Meditation Verses: Hebrews 13:5-6 Keeping my life free from the love of money requires being content with what I have. If I'm not content, I will need more money. If I am content with what I have, I…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 12-13 Meditation Verses: 13:1-4 The only thing that hinders discipline is a community unwilling to cooperate with the discipline. Paul previously said that he was ready to punish the wrongdoers, as soon as the Corinthians' obedience was complete. Not that they…

How precious is the Kingdom of Heaven to you? What do our lives show? What do our priorities reveal about our valuation of the Kingdom? Jesus shares a couple of parables about how much we should value His Kingdom, and really, about how greatly we…

In this section of Matthew 13, Jesus gives us three parables that prophesy about the future of the Kingdom of Heaven. Two are fairly obvious and it would be fair to consider them fulfilled. The third is intriguing for the details it contains, and the…