Lent 2022
Jesus’ Lament
Read Matthew 23:37-38 You can just hear the sadness and longing in Jesus’ words: lamenting over the city, the people. This whole chapter, He has been laying into them HARD...
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Eastbrook Church
Lent 2022
Straight to the Heart
Read Matthew 23:29-36 In this final, “woe to you” statement Jesus makes to the teachers of the law and Pharisees, He emphasizes the obvious hypocrisy found in their pronouncements and...
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April 07, 2022
Lent 2022
Align My Heart
Read Matthew 23:23-28 How easy it is for me to skim this passage and make the assumption this couldn’t possibly apply to me! There are no passages I can think...
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April 06, 2022
Lent 2022
Blind Guides
Read Matthew 23:16-22 We’ve heard the spiritual heed many times before: “Be careful not to become like the Pharisees!” These were the early teachers of the Law whose decisions and...
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April 05, 2022
Lent 2022
Don’t Exalt Yourself!
Read Matthew 23:5-12 The God of the Universe wants a relationship with us and desires that we meditate on Him and His Word. In several passages of the Old Testament,...
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April 04, 2022
Lent 2022
The Woes of the Religiously Misguided
Read Matthew 23:1-4; 13-15 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do...
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April 03, 2022
Lent 2022
Week 4 Reflection
Use this page either by yourself, with one or two other people or with your small group to reflect on how this week’s readings have impacted you. Reflect on...
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April 02, 2022
Lent 2022
Keeping It Real
Read Matthew 22:41-46 Before reading and discussing this passage recently with a few dozen young men, I asked the question, “What is meant when we say ‘Keep it real’?” Their...
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April 01, 2022
Lent 2022
Love and Taxes
Read Romans 13:6-10 Submit to the authorities. Submission is not a sentiment most Americans favor, no matter their background or perspective. In many circumstances, I bristle at being told to...
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March 31, 2022
Lent 2022
Trick Question
Read Matthew 22:23-33 I loved riddles and mental tricks when I was a kid. I remember one Christmas party at my house, with 40 members of my dad’s college choir,...
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