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Category Archives: Matthew
Jesus touches the leper–Matthew 8.2-3
Last year I was asked to share a brief devotional/homily from Matthew 8:2-3 on the subject of healing. This is a later taping (at home) of the substance of what I shared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkZ7cNcIuSg
Tithing–Matthew 23:23
3-4 minute video on tithing (especially Jesus’s challenge to religious leaders in his day):
More on Matthew is available free at: http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/DigitalCourses/00_DigitalBiblicalStudiesCourses.html#Matthew_Keener
The Great Commission
A 27-minute survey of Matthew’s Gospel:
This survey is excerpted from the introduction to Matthew’s Gospel; the entire series is available at: http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/DigitalCourses/00_DigitalBiblicalStudiesCourses.html#Matthew_Keener
Missing the forest for the trees
1-minute clip from video on Matthew 23: warning for seminarians (and seminary professors such as myself):
Excerpted from a series on Matthew’s Gospel available for free at: http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/DigitalCourses/00_DigitalBiblicalStudiesCourses.html#Matthew_Keener
Gnats and camels–Matthew 23:24
Ever wondered why Jesus compares gnats and camels? See this 4-minute clip:
For more video material on Matthew, see http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/DigitalCourses/00_DigitalBiblicalStudiesCourses.html#Matthew_Keener
Is Matthew’s Gospel anti-Jewish?
2-minute video:
A clip from the free videos at: http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/DigitalCourses/00_DigitalBiblicalStudiesCourses.html#Matthew_Keener. (For a book treating in more detail the question here, see David Turner, Israel’s Last Prophet, published by Fortress Press in 2015.)
Joseph’s example of virtue–Matthew 1:18-25
For a 17-minute clip on Joseph’s example in Matthew 1, see
For more material on Matthew’s Gospel, see http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/DigitalCourses/00_DigitalBiblicalStudiesCourses.html#Matthew_Keener (free for everyone; but please circulate this ESPECIALLY in parts of the world where people can access the internet but lack direct access to theological education).
Jesus and the Temple
Jesus challenged ethnic segregation in the Temple, and also promised coming judgment. I discuss this in a 4-minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmk10JZANyU
Earlier short videos include:
The meaning of the tabernacle in the Old Testament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkqIQclvwTI
The new temple in Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpfVbCo955g
Are we Pharisees?–Matthew 23
There is a reason that the denunciation of religious leaders at Jesus’s first coming appears so soon before Jesus’s warnings for religious leaders to be ready for him at his second coming. 1-minute video:
This is a clip excerpted from a free series on Matthew’s Gospel (face-to-face in class is best, but for people who can’t do that!) – watch it here