It is easy, and even understandable that one might gloss over the list of names in Matthew 1:1-17. It is a long genealogy but more importantly, it is a curated one. Subtly but intentionally, Matthew opens his story with the words: “The historical record of” (Mt 1:1 HCSB). Hearing this phrase calls to mind a […]
The Better Welcome | Have You Been Forgiven Much?
Luke 7 is a familiar story to most: the woman who interrupts dinner to wash and perfume Jesus’s feet, vexing the Pharisaical witnesses. The focus is primarily on her, this “sinner,” presumably a prostitute because she is described as “a woman of the city” (7:37 ESV). We remember her. But what about the host of […]