Bring them to Jesus
Day 1: The Abundance of the Heart Rundown In Matthew 4:24, we read a profound statement about the ministry of Jesus: "His fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick." It is incredibly easy to skip right over that single word: they. But who exactly is this referring to? It points to the disciples, yes, but it also encompasses a larger group: anyone who had already encountered Jesus and been changed by Him. Think of the woman at the well in John 4. Jesu
Fishers of Men
Day 1: Convert or Apprentice? Rundown In the American church, we often celebrate the moment someone walks down an aisle to make a decision. Since the 1820s, the altar call has driven us to create converts—people who have an emotional response to a message. But Jesus didn't call us to make converts; Matthew 28 commands us to make disciples. The Greek word for disciple is Mathetias, which means a learner or a follower. In the first century, this wasn't a standard classroom dyna
Your Light Was Never Meant To Stay Hidden
Day 1: The Sovereignty of Geography Rundown In Matthew 4, Jesus didn’t just wander into Zebulun and Naphtali; He targeted it. Historically, when Israel first entered the Promised Land, these tribes compromised. They didn't drive out the inhabitants, and because of that disobedience, they were among the first to fall into the deep darkness of the Assyrian conquest. It became a broken, mixed-race, marginalized region—the "Galilee of the Gentiles." Yet, this is exactly where Jes
