Matthew 7:24-27: Build Your House on the Rock
Some of us love danger, Thomas says, the thrill of climbing, guns, mountain biking, while others just endure necessary risks like driving or crossing the road. He works through Jesus’s closing parable of the Sermon...
Matthew 6:11-13: Praying for Man’s Needs (The Lord’s Prayer, Part 3)
Ever known someone who went hypothermic? Thomas asks, describing how the body starts shutting down, stops feeling the cold, and just wants to sleep. He uses that picture of numbed need to open Jesus’s teaching...
Matthew 6:25-34: Do Not Be Anxious
Thomas remembers pulling weeds for hours in his father’s vegetable garden as a kid, especially the notorious dock weed that always seemed to come back. He uses that image to work through Jesus’s command not...
Matthew 6:9b-10: Praying for God’s Glory (The Lord’s Prayer, Part 2)
Imagine you’re captaining a boat with your child aboard when a storm hits and another vessel signals distress, Thomas says, using that impossible choice to frame what it means to pray first for God’s name,...
Matthew 6:9a: Introduction to the Lord’s Prayer (Part 1)
How do you approach someone with real authority over you, someone with the right to take everything you own, even your life? Thomas opens the Lord’s Prayer with that question, setting up just how remarkable...