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Unique Features of the Gospels: Matthew (2)

Youth | by Nadia Janssen | Volume 29, Issue 3 | May – June 2023

Matthew’s gospel is not in chronological order. It is referred to as the ‘didactic (instructive) gospel’ and is like a mosaic of the Master’s teachings, given in different places and at different times, but collected together and arranged to show the Lord as the master teacher; one of whom it would be recorded “the people were astonished at his doctrine: For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes” (7:28-29).

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Unique Features of the Gospels: Matthew (1)

Youth | by Nadia Janssen | Volume 29, Issue 2 | March - April 2023

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Four writers, four faces
Why did God see fit to provide us with four accounts of the life and teaching of the Lord? Why not just write one gospel with all the information contained in it?
God chose to use four different men to write a record of His Son’s life.

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The Bread of Life (2)

Youth | by Nadia Janssen | Volume 28, Issue 6 | November - December 2022

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There was no shortage of food provided to the people. They need never go short of spiritual food. Should they do so, then the lack would be due to their own indifference, not due to insufficiency on the Lord’s part. The Lord then sends out the disciples to collect up the leftovers. This emphasises that there would be ample spiritual food for all who desire to be filled with the teachings of Christ, yet this food was not to be wasted.

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The Bread of Life (1)

Youth | by Nadia Janssen | Volume 28, Issue 5 | September - October 2022

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About 2000 years ago, on a spring day in Galilee, thousands of people were gathered together in a desert place to hear the words of one man; to feel his healing touch on their illnesses and to watch in amazement as the lame walked, the deaf heard and the dumb spake. It was on this hillside in Galil…

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Enthusiasm in an Age of Apathy

Youth | by Nadia Janssen | Volume 24, Issue 2 | March – April 2018

About 2000 years ago, Christ wrote to the ecclesia at Laodicea and said, “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth” (Rev 3:15,16). This attitude of ap…

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Unique Features of the Gospels: Matthew (2)

Unique Features of the Gospels: Matthew (1)

The Bread of Life (2)

The Bread of Life (1)

Enthusiasm in an Age of Apathy

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