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The river of God’s grace is filled with the promises of God. Every promise God keeps – and God keeps ALL His promises— flows over the waterfall of the present into past grace reservoir. Every ounce of that reservoir is a permanent reminder and encou
Some people have a life verse. I have a life paragraph. It's Matthew 6.24-34. Let me tell you why.
During WW2, C.S. Lewis did a series of radio lectures on the subject of Christianity. These lectures were later published in a book: Mere Christianity. In his lecture on hope, Lewis reminded his audience that hope is not “a form of escapism or wishful t
When it comes to the practice of fasting, Jesus is direct about its proper exercise. In the same we are to give, pray, and forgive in secret, so too, are we to fast in secret. Fasting is not to be done before an audience. And, if you’ll pardon the pun,
When we set out to practice what Jesus preaches, one of the first things we must learn to do is deny ourselves, and take up our cross and follow Him. However, I cannot take up my cross if I refuse to let go of the debts owed to me by my debtors. If I do n
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
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
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
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
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
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
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