Grace and Scripture

Jesus does not give rules to follow. He describes a person being transformed from the inside out. In this episode we walk through all of Matthew 5 what blessed actually means in Greek, all eight Beatitudes and how they build on each other, why you are salt and light right now not someday, how Jesus fulfills the law rather than cancels it, and all six antitheses covering anger, lust, divorce, oaths...

Before Jesus ever preached a sermon, He was tested on who He was. In this episode we walk through all of Matthew 4 — the Spirit leading Jesus into the wilderness on purpose, why forty days connects to Moses and Elijah and Israel, the three temptations and why each one is an attack on identity before it is an attack on behavior, the calling of four fishermen off a dock with two words, and why Jesus...

Before Jesus was ever tested, the Father declared exactly who He was. In this episode we walk through all of Matthew 3 the 400 years of silence that broke in a desert, who John the Baptist really was, his lifelong Nazirite vow, the threshing floor image, why the baptism of Jesus was a priestly consecration and not just a ritual, and why the devil’s first words in Matthew 4 are a direct attack on t...

In this episode of Grace & Scripture, we explore Matthew chapter 2, one of the most misunderstood passages in the New Testament. Many people know the Christmas story of the wise men and the star, but Matthew reveals a much deeper and more dramatic story. In this episode we talk about who the Magi really were, why King Herod felt threatened by the birth of Jesus, and how Matthew connects these even...

Matthew chapter 1 may look like just a list of names, but hidden inside the genealogy is the story of God’s promises, grace through broken people, and the arrival of the Messiah. In this first episode of Grace & Scripture, we explore why the genealogy of Jesus is far more important than most readers realize and how it reveals the heart of the Gospel before Jesus even speaks a word.