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.
As he approached his death, Peter announced in 2 Peter 1:12-18 his purpose of ensuring that Christians would always be able to recall the...
Jesus told his disciples how to handle not only adversity, but also prosperity, both of which require faith in God.
When were the glory days of the church: perhaps when it was being persecuted, or maybe when it held sway over the culture? In...