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Continue reading →: Stewarding Your Marriage: What the Bible Actually Says
Culture treats marriage like a performance evaluation, while Scripture treats it like a covenant stewardship. And a lot of people really do treat it like one side does X and the other does Y, and if X isn’t done well enough, then one person has the right to be angry.…
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Continue reading →: Faith of the Centurion: Why Jesus Heals in Matthew 8I’ve read Matthew 8:5-13 more times than I can count, and it still unsettles me in a quiet way. Not because it’s dramatic or surprising, but because it exposes how easily I complicate faith. When Jesus enters Capernaum, a Roman centurion approaches him. That detail alone should feel strange. This…
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Continue reading →: Judging OthersMatthew 7:1–6 used to confuse me. For a long time, I heard “Judge not” as a blanket command to stay quiet, stay neutral, and never name anything that felt off. It sounded like Jesus telling us to mind our own business no matter what, even when harm was happening, even…
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Continue reading →: What Jesus Teaches About Fasting (Matthew 6:16–18)Jesus talks about fasting the same way he talks about prayer and generosity in this chapter. Not as something flashy or as something to be explained or defended. Just as something that’s meant to keep God at the center. “When you fast…” (Matthew 6:16, ESV) There’s no debate here about…
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Continue reading →: The Lord’s Prayer: What Jesus Teaches Us About How to PrayFor a long time, I thought the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:5-15) was something you memorized so you’d always have words ready. A safe fallback. Familiar. Reliable. But the more time I’ve spent with this passage, the clearer it’s become that Jesus wasn’t handing us a script, He was giving us…
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Continue reading →: Love Your Enemies: What Jesus Really Means in Matthew 5Matthew 5:43–48 is one of those passages I can’t soften no matter how many times I come back to it. Jesus doesn’t leave room for loopholes here. He doesn’t redefine “enemy” into something abstract or symbolic. He says it plainly. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love…
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Continue reading →: Jesus’ Teaching on Anger: What Matthew 5:21–26 Really MeansMatthew 5:21–26 takes place in the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus first describes who belongs to the kingdom of God in the Beatitudes, then calls His followers to live visibly as salt and light. Immediately before this passage, Jesus says something critical for understanding everything that follows: “Do not think…
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Continue reading →: The Temptation of Jesus ExplainedMatthew 4:1–11 comes immediately after Jesus’s baptism. He’s just stepped out of the Jordan, and heaven has opened. The Spirit descends. The Father speaks. “This is My beloved Son.” His identity is named clearly and publicly. Then Matthew tells us what happens next. “Then Jesus was led up by the…
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Continue reading →: Poor in Spirit Meaning: Why Jesus Starts the Sermon on the Mount HereMatthew 5:1–16 opens the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus has just begun His public ministry. Crowds are forming. Expectations are rising. People are watching closely, trying to figure out what kind of Messiah He’s going to be. Matthew tells us that Jesus sees the crowds, goes up on a mountain,…
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Continue reading →: How Jesus Fulfills the Law in Matthew 5:17–20Matthew 5:17–20 sits right at the center of the Sermon on the Mount, and it functions like a hinge. Everything before it has introduced the kingdom. Everything after it explains what life inside that kingdom actually looks like. If this section is misunderstood, the rest of Matthew 5–7 gets distorted.…
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I’m Karleigh
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