Hurricane Harvey has wreaked havoc on southeast Texas over the past week, causing people to flee their homes and find shelter. However, they haven’t given up hope. As one man…
A Tale of Two Journeys Towards the end of his teaching in Matthew, Jesus speaks of two kinds of gates and two kinds of pathways. One is a wide, safe,…
Underneath the language that Jesus uses throughout his sermon on the mount, he is calling us forward into a life totally formed around the values of the Kingdom of God.…
We all know just how easy it is to read a sentence or paragraph out of context from the rest of the story or letter. We’ve experienced it when we’ve…
It's much easier to live by the law, but the law always reveals our failures, which is the last thing we want people to see. And so we begin to…
It seems that over and over Jesus is saying that "we have heard" with our ears a truth from the law ... but if we were listening with our heart…
A vast majority of church people are more than familiar with the prayer that Jesus used as a model to teach his disciples how to pray – what we have…
Jesus revolutionized pretty much everything about our understanding of the good life in what we now now as His sermon and the mount, found in the book of Matthew. It…
Jesus’ teachings are quite shocking, actually. Kingdom life really does run counter to our way of living and how we see each other and see God. Jesus gave an impromptu…