During three weeks, we are looking 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. This week we looked at Jesus’ three instructions about how to pray: in secret, with simplicity, and with forgiveness.
The mission of the church is dangerous, and Christians will not always agree on how best to accomplish it, but the Lord will accomplish...
The Gospel of John wastes no time in diving into the deep waters of truth. In John 1:1-18, the author presents Jesus as the...
Although we work for the growth of the kingdom, it grows mysteriously in ways that we cannot understand or control.