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.
If we invest in making disciples, our lives become bound up with theirs to die and live together.
Christian thinking is thinking like Jesus, especially as seen in his becoming one of us to die on the cross.
Who would have thought that a book called Numbers would contain interesting stories that are applicable to our lives today? Actually, the Jews call...