Hey, my friends, I'm Matt, this is the 10 Minute Bible Hour podcast, and if you have jumped

in today or yesterday, you're getting an odd and different tone for how we usually

have the conversation here.

We're doing a daily 10, 12, 13 minute walkthrough of the Book of Matthew, one little chunk at

the time, and usually it's, I don't know, fun, like we goof around with it a little bit,

but the last couple of conversations have us in a place where we're processing a very

human experience that, whether you've experienced it yet or not, you will, at some point in life,

part of life, is lost, is death.

And here we are in Matthew 14 watching the incarnate Christ deal with and process the

blow of losing somebody who was very important to him, and it's tough to talk about something

like that without harkening back to our own experiences with loss to be in that moment.

It seems like we spend so much of life intentionally trying not to be in that moment, especially

from 1900 on, culture is done everything it can to distance itself from the realities

of death, even the way we treat the remains of the dead indicate that in the Western world,

we're really trying to put a buffer between us and thinking about that moment that we

know is coming, that thing that represents the human end to ultimately all of our relationships.

And so to you, new listener, thank you for jumping in and thank you also for being willing

to jump into the middle of a portion of our ongoing conversation here that is very, very

serious.

So yesterday we talked about something that has come up from time to time in the ongoing

course of our discussion here, and that is the very formative moment for me that was

the loss of my little brother.

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