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.
The vision that John saw in Revelation 4-5 concludes the opening section and prepares for the rest of the book. After reading about the...
Because God's power is greater than ours, we ought to obey God, knowing that the joy he gives is greater than suffering humans can...
In Jonah 1, we meet the Israelite prophet who preferred to flee rather than obey the Lord’s call to do something new, surprising, and...