(found this online) It has been hugely productive, revelatory, and (even) fun to, as part of a class that several others and I teach, have students plot out (on the whiteboard) their timeline. As Pastor/Trucker Franks suggests below, sometimes it's "more about the journey than the destination." (See also "What if Torah/ מלכות השמים, is more 'journey than 'doctrine'?") We then take time to interweave/intertext our personal timelines with the timeline/trajectory of Jesus' life in Matthew's…