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.
Although we work for the growth of the kingdom, it grows mysteriously in ways that we cannot understand or control.
Christian thinking is thinking like Jesus, especially as seen in his becoming one of us to die on the cross.
A constant problem for the reputation of the church is the presence of persons who claim to be believers but deny the faith with...