Recently, I have been fascinated by Matthew the Tax Collector. By the way, "Matthew the Tax Collector" is how he identified himself (Matthew 10:3). I assume that what the early believers said about ...

Just in time for Easter, Season One of "The Chosen" is streaming on Fox Nation, with stories and characters viewers will recognize from the Gospels. The season consists of eight episodes, and by ...

Matthew (also known as Levi in the Gospels of Luke and Mark) was a Jewish tax collector, or publican, living in Capernaum. Tax collectors at that time were known as dishonest and corrupt people who ...

I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear the start of today’s Gospel, I immediately start making excuses for Matthew. So he was a tax collector. So what? Everyone has to make a living. But tax ...

Why would this Jesus eat with sinners and tax collectors? What is he thinking? Doesn’t he care about his reputation? How can any decent person take him seriously when he treats the scum of the earth ...

Q. Since Easter occurs after the “tax season” ends, will you still do your biblical view of taxes this year? A. Yes. The Bible points out that Jesus treated tax collectors in a positive manner. Our ...

Liar, cheater, fraud, traitor. These are labels no one would like to bear. These are the names of the outcast, the unwanted, the unneeded and the undesirable. These are the names I hear people calling ...

Sitting at his customs post, Levi the tax collector must have gotten some angry glares. After all, tax collectors were despised for collaborating with the Roman authorities and were unwelcome in the ...