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.
God's presence in the early church produced awesome acts of community giving and healing but also an awesome judgment against hypocrisy and deception.
We begin with an overview of the history of the church in Philippi, especially in relationship to Paul and his companions. Also, we were...
After showing the people in Haggai 2:10-19 that it is easier to get dirty than clean, God pointed the way forward to the only...