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Michael Hewat

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Michael Hewat is currently serving as the Senior Minister at West Hamilton Community Church, New Zealand
  We are given the reminder that there is only one class of disciple in God’s kingdom, the blessed class. God gives the same new heart to all and rewards all equally. You are the light of the world. In going...
And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit (14) “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathise with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet...
James closes his letter as abruptly with simply a final appeal. His task has been to bring back the wanderer from the jagged, barren, dangerous landscape of ‘the world’ to what should be the sanctuary of God’s sheepfold Whoever brings...
You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased (v38) The LORD had declared centuries earlier, “my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways” (Isa 55:8). How graphically Luke illustrates this fact in the...
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man (52) Here are two temple scenes. Jesus is in a holy place surrounded by pious folk. His is a family which performs everything according...
New wine is put into fresh wineskins Matthew 9.9-34 Two of the most intriguing things about Jesus’ calling of his disciples are his apparent casualness and abruptness. As with the calling of the first disciples (4.18-22), the impression...
Young man, I say to you, arise (14) This is the third time Luke records Jesus’ returning to Capernaum (4.31ff.; 5.17ff., cf. Mark 2.1). As already noted, the emphasis on the first two occasions was upon Jesus’ authority: as a...
It seemed good to me also … to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught (3-4) One of the greatest ironies of theology is the...
You give them something to eat (13) Jesus’ sending out of the twelve recalls their appointment as apostles (6.12ff.), since which they have been largely passive - learning from him and being with him (8.1). When they have acted,...
Do not fear; only believe (50) Whereas the previous narrative concluded with all the people fearful and asking Jesus to leave, this one begins with them welcoming and waiting for him. Whereas the healed demoniac was commanded to...