Mark Whittall

What was Jesus like? That seems like a good question for those of us who call ourselves followers of Jesus, those of us who, at least in some measure, try to model our lives on the life of Jesus. What was Jesus like? The people who were best placed to tell us what Jesus was like were his first disciples, those who walked with Jesus, people like Peter and others of the early church who were eye-witnesses to Jesus’ life. One of their responsibilities as those witnesses was to

A number of years ago I was fortunate enough to attend a preaching workshop in Toronto with colleagues from across Canada, and the main text we focused on was this very text from the gospel of Matthew. One of the things that Anna, our workshop leader, insisted on is that in preparing to preach, you have to go into the text and wrestle with it until it speaks to you. And so, after spending time with the text, reading it, questioning it, discussing it, looking at commentaries