Epiphany 2012
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From Inconsolable Sorrow to Joy
The event known as the "Slaughter of the Innocents" is one of the most tragic stories surrounding Christ's nativity. However...
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Out of Egypt
After the visit of the wise men, Herod seeks to destroy Jesus and the family flees to Egypt. Matthew sees much more to the story than a tyrant's hatred of...
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Gifts Given and Received
The Gospel according to Matthew is framed with the giving and receiving of gifts. In the ancient world, it was customary to bring gifts when...
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Christ, the True King
From the beginning of his Gospel account, Matthew emphasizes that Jesus is the Promised Messiah. In Matthew 2:6, his paraphrase of...
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Christ, the True King
God works all things in according to the counsel of will (Eph 1:11). Many are the plans in a man's heart but...
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In Bethlehem of Judea
In Matthew's account of the nativity, he makes no reference to geographic location until he comes to the story of the wise men. Even then, he states...
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Did Wise Men Really Come?
Modern liberal scholarship claims that the nativity accounts of Matthew and Luke are mythological and even historically contradictory. However...
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Why Wise Men From the East?
Some have suggested that the nativity accounts are in the wrong books. Luke, writing to Gentiles, records the few receptions of Jesus by...
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The Babe That Divides
Jesus Christ is the great divide. He separates the wheat from the tares, the sheep from the goats, the seed of the woman from the seed of the serpent. With His coming...
Speaker
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Stan McGehee, Jr.