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.
After a time of little communication with his people, God spoke again through his prophet Samuel, and he has spoken most clearly through his...
In a nighttime conversation with a religious leader recorded in John 3:1-21, Jesus used an expression that has found its way into popular culture,...
Paul’s time in Athens provides an example of how to present Jesus and the resurrection to a cultured non-Christian audience.