I have been blessed to study and preach from the Birth Narrative of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. Matthew’s Gospel gives the events of the birth of Jesus from the point of view of Joseph while Luke gives us the point of view of Mary. What we see in Matthew’s Gospel is an emphasis […]
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Finishing the Story
In some ways, the last paragraph of Matthew Chapter Two seems superfluous. After all, the child has been protected and those who wanted to kill him are dead, but that’s not the end of the story. In fact, the story is only beginning. This passage of Scripture seems very important to me for two reasons. […]
I am the senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Covington, Louisiana, a position that I have held since 1989.