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.
In Ruth 1, we meet three men and three women, who suddenly separate, leaving all in apparently impossible situations. By the end of the...
In the second part of his sermon, Peter emphasized that God raised Jesus from the dead so that even those who had a part...
Jesus' power over the forces of evil demonstrated that the kingdom of God had come.