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Jul 16, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
So far, Jesus has taught us to confess God as our Father, to sanctify His name, to pray for His Kingdom to come, and for His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. He’s taught us to trust God for our daily bread as well as for our daily grace, first
Jul 9, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
The Disciples’ Prayer begins with an invocation: “Our Father in heaven.” An invocation is an appeal for God’s attention. It’s an invitation for Him to come and make His presence known to us. The invocation governs and guides the entire prayer. W
Jul 2, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
The Disciples’ Prayer is meant to be a pattern for our prayer. Jesus is teaching us how to pray not what we should pray. Now it’s not wrong to pray this prayer word-for-word, as we often do and as we will prior to taking Communion after the sermon. Ho
Jun 25, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
In Matthew 6, Jesus draws attention to how two groups of people approach God in prayer. The first group approaches God in order to be seen by the other employees – as if to show Him, as well as their co-workers, how hard-working and dedicated they are t
Jun 4, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
Practicing righteousness is the practical outworking of everything Jesus has taught thus far in the Sermon on the Mount. In John 6.27, Jesus said, “Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of
May 28, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
As Jesus preaches through the Sermon on the Mount, He adds more weight to what it means to be His disciple. He began with the Beatitudes. To this He added the weight of being salt and light. To this, He added the weight of having our righteousness surpass
May 7, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
By the time Jesus delivers the Sermon on the Mount, leaders of the religious and legal establishment in Israel had replaced the original intent of the law of retaliation with their own interpretation. They took a law clearly intended to be used to settle
Apr 30, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
In their zeal to avoid breaking the Law the Pharisees substituted their interpretation of the Law for the Law itself. As a result, they lost sight of its original intent. This is where Jesus enters the conversation. He is the Second Moses come not to null
Apr 23, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
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Apr 16, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
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Apr 9, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
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Mar 26, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
Having declared Himself as the Foremost Teacher of the Law, Jesus launches into a part of the Sermon on the Mount referred to as the antitheses, a series of contrasts in which Jesus begins each new point by drawing a difference between what the people hav
Mar 19, 2017 6:30 AM America/New_York
According to Jesus, preventing murder is not the original intent of the Sixth Commandment. On the contrary, the original intent of the commandment is to encourage people to deal properly with their anger so that they don’t commit murder. In other words,
Mar 5, 2017 5:30 AM America/New_York
In telling us we are salt and light, Jesus says we have the opportunity to introduce civilization where there is none. We have received a character different from the surrounding culture. This different character will produce a different lifestyle; one gu
Feb 19, 2017 5:30 AM America/New_York
The Beatitudes challenge us to live like people in whom the Spirit of God is at work. Since none of us possesses any of the beatitudes at birth, we must receive them by trust in Christ and practice them in obedience to His instructions. The beatitudes des
Feb 12, 2017 5:30 AM America/New_York
Jesus began the Sermon on the Mount with the Beatitudes because they are the fundamental qualities one must have in order to practice what Jesus preaches. The Beatitudes paint a picture of what life as a citizen of the kingdom of heaven looks like. The Be
Feb 5, 2017 5:30 AM America/New_York
This text is a prelude to the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew 4 begins with Jesus being led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan. After thwarting Satan, Jesus emerges from the wilderness only to learn His cousin, John the Baptizing P
Jan 29, 2017 5:30 AM America/New_York
Scholars describe Psalm 97 as an enthronement psalm. Normally, such psalms were sung at the coronation of a new king. But there is no king in Israel or in Judah when Psalm 97 is written. Nevertheless, Israel is not without a king to watch over and protect
Jan 22, 2017 5:30 AM America/New_York
Some years ago, the Clarica Insurance Company produced a commericial featuring a man frantically waving his arms in an attempt to get the attention of a woman sitting on a bench across a busy city street. The woman sees the man, but has no idea why he is
Jan 15, 2017 5:30 AM America/New_York
David composed Psalm 20 as a prayer to be offered by the people on behalf of the king about to go to war in defense of the kingdom. The psalm encourages both the king and the people to remember that God protects those who trust in Him. Even when we are su
Jan 1, 2017 5:30 AM America/New_York
Given David’s checkered background, and God’s continued grace shown to him throughout his life, the shepherd-king wants to know what kind of person can expect to be welcomed into the company of God’s fellowship.
Oct 16, 2016 6:30 AM America/New_York
When last we left Jonah, the LORD had instructed the great fish He appointed to swallow him to vomit the runaway prophet out upon dry land. We do not know how much time passed between the day the fish vomited out Jonah upon dry land and the moment “the
Oct 9, 2016 6:30 AM America/New_York
In his book, Miracles, C.S. Lewis wrote, "I use the word Miracle to mean an interference with Nature by supernatural power." If we accept Lewis' definition (and we should) then the book of Jonah is full of miracles. It is an account filled with descriptio