Heads Up

The parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25 is a masterpiece. It is realistic in its details and poignant in application, and the deeper a person explores it, the more profound its lessons become. Jesus tells about ten young women who are invited to a marriage feast. Five are wise and five are foolish.…

Keep watch and be ready! Perhaps you think we overdid that point in recent articles? But I cannot have overdone it since in Matthew 25 (the next chapter) Jesus continues His teaching on the Mount of Olives by adding three more parables that also warn us to watch and be ready. The first is the…

The pictures in Matthew 24 stress the sudden nature and unpredictability of Christ’s return. The picture of the flood reminds us that many persons will be lost. The picture of the two men working in the fields and the two women grinding at the mill points to a radical separation and reminds us that we…

Jesus said, “… stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.  But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part  of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore…

In Matthew 24, the disciples ask Jesus, “…when will these things be, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” The first part of Jesus’ answer has to do with bad things that will happen, but which are not in themselves signs of the end. The signs…

“Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, ‘Hear and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person’” (Mt.15.11). Everything Jesus said seems radical to us because Jesus is God and God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, nor are…