The Lord’s Prayer reorders our desires to yearn for his name to be held in highest honor. It leads us to the person and purposes of God, someone infinitely more interesting and awesome than ourselves. Through repetition and memorization our hearts are...

The Lord’s Prayer reorders our desires to yearn for his name to be held in highest honor. It leads us to the person and purposes of God, someone infinitely more interesting and awesome than ourselves. Through repetition and memorization our hearts are...

In this section of the Sermon the Mount Jesus is teaching us that it’s possible for our Christian faith to be expressed in hypocritical ways. For example, there’s an ever-present temptation to pray performatively so that others think well of us. In...

Isaiah wrote to a people tempted by pride and idolatry inviting them to trade in their foolish pride for worship of the one true God.

We’re all prone to putting on a show in our digital lives, our in-person lives and even in our religious lives. Performing one’s religious duties is the area of concern that Jesus takes things as his concern is that it’s possible for our faith to be...

Easter hope is about a life to experience now. We can be certain of the future because of what has happened in the past in the resurrection of Jesus. Faith in Jesus not only affects the future it also affects the present. Easter hope is about a life...

The cross is one of the world’s most recognizable symbols. It is the unmistakable sign of the Christian faith. Yet, it is somewhat strange that the church has chosen it as its emblem. Crucifixion was a brutal form of torture, it was a shameful death...

Love and pray for your enemies. Why? Because our heavenly Father is loving toward friend and foe and he loved us, in Christ, while we were still his enemy. In the Lord Jesus we become what we’ve been made, one who loves those who don’t love us. This...

Much of what Jesus is doing in his sermon is pushing against the tendency that we have to make religion, merely a matter of appropriate behavior, regardless of heart motivations. He is, instead, laying out for his disciples a whole-person joyful...

Our next topic in the Sermon on the Mount has to do with the Christian and the taking of oaths. In it the plain and simple emphasis of Jesus’s teaching is that honest people don’t need to resort to oaths. It’s not that Christians should refuse to take...