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.
Because Christians are sometimes tempted to add human traditions to the teaching about Jesus, Colossians 2:6-15 reminds us that the fullness of God dwells...
A depressingly common theme that runs through human history is the oppression of the poor by the rich. In the first century, Christians were...
As Jesus finally approached Jerusalem, he admonished the leaders and affirmed his mission.