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.
When our life is off center, the result is dissatisfaction. In Haggai 1:1-11, God calls us to center our lives on him.
God’s creation shows forth his majesty and the majesty of humanity and of the Son of Man.
In Acts 8:26-40, God took Philip from a growing church to a deserted place to talk about Jesus with one African man who came...