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.
Within the final greetings in his letter to the Romans, Paul included a declaration about the final victory of the church.
In answer to the grumblings of some religious leaders, Jesus told three parables in Luke 15 about lost and found items: a sheep, a...
In a second vision, Daniel saw into the future when the Jews would need to remain faithful under terrible persecution.