During three weeks, we will look at Matthew 6:1-18, moving from the outside toward the Lord’s Prayer in the middle. First we considered Jesus’ warnings about hypocrisy: doing the right things in order to receive human applause. Jesus called us rather to focus on the divine audience and receive grace upon grace from God.
The Israelites’ demand for a king is a good reminder to us to trust in the Lord, the only one who can profit and...
People asked Jesus about when and where the kingdom of God would come, but Jesus focused on the fact that it’s already present and...
Through a series of mistakes by the disciples, Jesus taught them and us what following him is not.
