During the season of Lent, the 40 day period leading up to Easter Sunday, "The Big Read" led by New Testament scholar, Dr. Tom Wright offers several videos to walk us through the Gospel of Matthew. These videos are under five minutes in length and offer very solid biblical scholarship to help us understand Matthew's particular understanding of who Jesus is.
As a resource during this season of Lent, I invite us to take just five minutes out of our schedules to watch the video and allow this to be a vital resource during our Lenten journey. The reason the focus of these videos is on Matthew's gospel is because Matthew is the primary gospel used in worship for this liturgical year.
I invite comments, thoughts, discussions, questions throughout this lenten cyber study. A link to these videos will also be posted each week on the facebook page of First United Methodist Church, Lancaster, Ohio.
(Nee'-kos) Biblical Greek Word for "Victory"
The thing that I find most helpful in this video is the statement that Dr Wright makes about coming back to Jesus again and again. Sometimes we get so caught up in what is happening in our lives we may think that Jesus is asleep and is not watching over us. Even though we know that Jesus is not asleep, we need to pray to Him, tell Him like it is, and wake Him up. Like Dr Wright said, He may do more than we expect. Excellent video.
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