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.
Four short parables point to the surpassing value of the kingdom of God and the need to find it now.
In the second part of his sermon, Peter emphasized that God raised Jesus from the dead so that even those who had a part...
There is a stubborn fact of history that no one has been able to disprove, although many have tried. Jesus’ tomb was empty, and...