Jesus says, “Run!”
Matthew tells us that after his temptations in the desert, “when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee”...
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Father David M. Knight
- Dec 23, 2017
If You Love Anything, Look Out!
As “Master of the Way,” Jesus teaches us above all how to love. The greatest temptation against love, however, is love itself. Once...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 22, 2017
Don’t Trust In God
The devil couldn’t convince Jesus to make the goal of his mission something people accepted. So he tempted him to make the means for...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 21, 2017
Jesus Didn’t Come To Feed The Hungry
In Matthew’s Gospel Jesus’s temptations in the desert follow immediately upon his baptism in the Jordan. That is logical. Jesus has just...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 20, 2017
God is a Bother
My cousin Louis had a drinking buddy—a non-believer—who used to comment on how religious Louis was. “Why do you keep saying I'm so...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 19, 2017
Confession Is A Profession
Matthew reports that those who converted in response to the preaching of John the Baptizer “were baptized by him in the river Jordan,...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 18, 2017
Conversion Can’t Make Sense
Acceptance of Jesus and his Gospel, like everything else that is human, is a live and growing thing. And like all live things, it begins...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 17, 2017
Repentance Isn’t Christian
Matthew (3:1) announces the call to conversion, “In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, “Repent...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 16, 2017
Challenge: Don’t Trust Conversion
After presenting the mission of Jesus and the conflict it causes, Matthew takes up the call to conversion. What does it really mean to...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 15, 2017
Loser Takes All
News flash: Loser Takes All Matthew began his Gospel by telling us the mission of Jesus was to do five things. As “Son of David” he...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 14, 2017
There Is No Discount Jesus
News flash: There Is No Discount Jesus Whatever we think of Matthew’s Gospel, we have to admit he doesn’t sugarcoat the truth. In his...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 13, 2017
Jesus Calls Us To Give Up Hope!
News flash: Jesus Calls Us To Give Up Hope! Matthew tells us Mary and Joseph were required to believe Jesus was the Savior of the world...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 12, 2017
Jesus Is Bad News!
News flash: Jesus Is Bad News! As soon as Matthew finishes presenting the mission of Jesus, he tells us it arouses conflict, opposition....
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 11, 2017
Bishops Say Church Promoted Atheism!
News flash: Bishops Say Church Promoted Atheism! The Magi followed a star and found Christ. But many who grew up following Christian...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 10, 2017
The Jews’ King Is Everybody’s King!
News Flash: The Jews’ King Is Everybody’s King! Matthew reports (2:1-12) that “wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 9, 2017
Jesus is Still on Earth!
News flash: Jesus Is Still On Earth! Matthew didn’t write about a Jesus who is no longer around. The titles he gave in his first chapter...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 8, 2017
Jesus is an ongoing Savior!
Friday December 8, 2017 News flash: Jesus is an ongoing Savior! Instead of saying we are saved, it is better to say we are being saved....
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 7, 2017
Baptism is Reincarnation
Thursday December 7, 2017 News flash: Baptism is Reincarnation We might miss the mystery Matthew reports when he quotes the angel as...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 6, 2017
Jesus calls us to be God
Wednesday December 6, 2017 News Flash! Jesus calls us to be God. (This is abbreviated from Why Jesus?, chapter four: “Jesus is Fullness...
Father David M. Knight
- Dec 5, 2017
We exist to make Jesus Christ exist!
Matthew begins his reporting on the Good News by giving us the family tree of Jesus. What does that tell us? Jesus existed from all...