Weekday Word w/ Eric

Tag: bible

  • Everything is Discipleship

    Matthew 28:16-20 – Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus told them to go.  When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted.  Jesus came near and spoke to them, “I’ve received all authority in heaven and on earth.  Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them…

  • Simon of Cyrene

    Matthew 27:32, NIV – As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. I encourage you to watch/listen to the song first today.  It is a dramatization of the scripture. Song:  Watch the Lamb – Ray Boltz Like many Christian songs, “Watch the…

  • Vision When It’s Hard to Look

    Matthew 27:27-31, CEB The governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s house, and they gathered the whole company of soldiers around him.  They stripped him and put a red military coat on him.  They twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They put a stick in his right hand. Then…

  • Judas and the Blood Money

    Matthew 27:1-10, NIV – Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed. So they bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor. When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized…

  • “These Two Sons of Mine. . .”

    Matthew 20:20-28, The Message – It was about that time that the mother of the Zebedee brothers came with her two sons and knelt before Jesus with a request. “What do you want?” Jesus asked. She said, “Give your word that these two sons of mine will be awarded the highest places of honor in…

  • This is Going to Happen. . .for Real!

    Matthew 20:17-19, NIV – Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and…

  • If You Want Something Done Right. . .

    Matthew 19:16-26, NIV – Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?” “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.” “Which ones?” he…

  • What the Heck Did Jesus Just Say?

    Matthew 18:18-20, The Message –  “Take this most seriously: A yes on earth is yes in heaven; a no on earth is no in heaven. What you say to one another is eternal. I mean this. When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my…

  • The One That Wandered Away. . .

    Special Request from Pastor Eric: I want to send a special message to you all, my WeekdayWord.net family before I make the following information fully public.  I have been diagnosed with cancer in my colon.  I had/have no symptoms; it was caught with a routine colonoscopy.  My medical team is confident that it is probably…

  • Do We Have “Guardian Angels?”

    Matthew 18:10, CEB – “Be careful that you don’t look down on one of these little ones. I say to you that their angels in heaven are always looking into the face of my Father who is in heaven. Four reflections ago, when we were talking about Matthew 17:22-23, we learned that in most popular…