Tuesday: Second Week in Lent Year A

WEEK 2: TUESDAY

Matthew 10.16 – 42; focused on 10.16 –25

Let’s stand on the edge of the crowd and listen as Jesus gives his twelve disciples these next instructions. Some of the Twelve are looking decidedly uncomfortable, but there’s nothing they can do about it. Jesus has called them and they’re going to have to get on with it.
These words are uncomfortable. Jesus is telling them it’s going to be tough. Not just tough in the sense of hard work with no pay and an uncertain future. Tough n the sense that people are not going to like the message. In particular, in this passage, it’s clear that word is going
to get back to the officials, whether in the Jewish...

Taken from Lent For Everyone – Matthew Year A by Tom Wright (2011)

Published by SPCK

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The #BigRead2011: meeting together in housegroups to read the Bible,
making use of Tom Wright's Matthew for Lent with opportunities to go
much bigger and much more creative and join in online (inter)nationally.
From quiet sitting rooms with Bibles and books, to coffee shops and
internet chatrooms across the world.