Judgement and Discernment
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus moves from personal temptations to interpersonal temptations. He warns against inappropriate judging (v. 1-5) and commends appropriate evaluation...
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Your First Priority
In verses 19-24, Jesus emphasized that we have to choose between serving God or stuff (mammon). That choice has another natural consequence – anxiety. If...
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Where is Your Treasure?
In the first half of Matthew 6, Jesus describes the believer’s private life (giving, praying, fasting); in the second half, he is concerned with our...
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Just Do It
Why do you do what you do—to gain the adoration of God or of others? Jesus teaches his disciples to be careful to not “practice...
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No Ordinary Faith
In the Sermon on the Mount, it becomes evident that Jesus believed authentic faith should shape how his disciples relate to people around them. It’s...
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Jill VanAusdall
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Easter: It is Finished
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Raise The Bar
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus doesn’t lower the bar when it comes to the law, he raises it. By making it clear that...
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#Blessed
Jesus challenges conventional thinking, in his time and ours, about what it means to be “blessed.” In the Beatitudes, Jesus shows us the marks of an extraordinary life of faith. The...
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In To Your Hands I Commit My Spirit
Jesus’ last words, like his first words, on the cross, were a prayer. William Barclay suggests that this prayer could very well be a prayer...
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I Thirst
John 4 and John 7 present Jesus as Living Water. As Jesus hangs on the cross, we see a picture of the living water drying up –...
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Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Derided and scorned by passers-by and religious leaders alike, these last words of Jesus are the only ones recorded by Matthew and Mark. Jesus knows...
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