God’s Priorities for ‘Religious’ Living — Bible Reflection for Thursday, December 14
Listen to the audio of today's Reflection: https://soundcloud.com/hapearce/reflection-for-december-14-2024 Matthew 23:13-26 13 “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...
The Greatest Commandments — Bible Reflection for Tuesday, December 12
Listen to the audio of today's Reflection: https://soundcloud.com/hapearce/reflection-for-december-12-2023 Matthew 22:34-40 The Greatest Commandment 34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the...
Earthly Marriage and Heavenly Communion — Bible Reflection for Monday, December 11
Listen to the audion of today's Reflection: https://soundcloud.com/hapearce/reflection-for-december-11-2023 Matthew 22:23-33 Marriage at the Resurrection 23 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24 “Teacher,”...
Religious Leaders as Corrupt Tenants — Bible Reflection for Thursday, December 7
Listen to the audio of today's Reflection: https://soundcloud.com/hapearce/reflection-for-december-7-2023 Matthew 21:33-46 The Parable of the Tenants 33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a...
Living Godly Lives in a Pagan World — Bible Reflection for December 4 2023
Listen to the audio of today's Reflection: https://soundcloud.com/hapearce/reflection-for-december-4-2023 I Peter 2:11-21 and 3:1-7 Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society 11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful...
Contrasting Grace and Fairness — Bible Reflection for Thursday, November 30
Listen to the audio of today's Reflection: https://soundcloud.com/hapearce/reflection-for-november-30-2023 Matthew 20:1-16 The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to...
Discipline Tempered with Mercy — Bible Reflection for Tuesday, November 28
Listen to the audio of today's Reflection: Matthew 18:21-35 https://soundcloud.com/hapearce/reflection-for-november-28-2023 The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant 21Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who...
Finding the Lost Sheep — Bible Reflection for Monday, November 27
Listen to the audio of today's Reflection: https://soundcloud.com/hapearce/reflection-for-november-27-2023 Matthew 18:10-14 The Parable of the Lost Sheep 10 “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven...
Why the Transfiguration Matters — Bible Reflection for Monday, November 20
Listen to the audion of today's Reflection: https://soundcloud.com/hapearce/reflection-for-november-20-2023 Matthew 17:1-13 The Transfiguration 1After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by...
The Yeast of Judgment and Hypocrisy — Bible Reflection for Thursday, November 16
Listen to the audio of today's Reflection: https://soundcloud.com/hapearce/reflection-for-november-16-2023 Matthew 16:5-12 The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees 5 When they went across the lake, the disciples forgot to take bread. 6 “Be careful,” Jesus said to...