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 the second Adam and the faithful Israel, Jesus resisted temptation and so can help us when we are tempted.
In a series of controversies with the religious leaders, Jesus revealed the nature of the Kingdom of God and how he would bring it...
We need to look again at the familiar story of Jesus’ birth to see the many connections with past promises and their coming fulfillment.
