Being fugitives means that we are running away into self-destruction, but because of God’s amazing grace, even though we are deliberately challenging his authority and running away from him in our sin, he runs after us with a cosmic intervention, often in the form of a mighty tempest, tempestuous and raging, but all for our good. Stephen Saucier The post Selected Scriptures, An Introduction to Jonah appeared first on Sunfield.

Jesus wants us see Himself in the Sermon on the Mount and cry out to Him in humble repentance and cling to Him with desperate faith. When you look at the Sermon on the Mount and you see your failures know this, that Jesus died for all your failures. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 7:28-29, Not Your Average Epilogue appeared first on Sunfield.

What makes a good work good is that you don’t trust it to save you. As soon as you put hope in that good work, it’s no longer good. As soon as you see it as your ticket to heaven, it’s no longer good. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 7:24-27, Wise & Foolish Building appeared first on Sunfield.

It’s scary to know that genuine and counterfeit believers are nearly identical, scary to think that this is the fate of many professing Christians, and scary to consider that the consequences are eternally grave. Scary. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 7:21-23, Who Will Enter the Kingdom of Heaven? appeared first on Sunfield.

The challenge of the gospel is that there needs to be an equal emphasis on both the demand of the gospel and the comfort of the gospel; otherwise, you lose the gospel. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 7:15-20, False Prophets appeared first on Sunfield.

Now all this is to say that Christianity IS narrow. But its narrowness is no narrower than claims to the contrary. The narrowness of Christianity is NOT arrogance. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 7:13-14, The Narrowness of Christianity appeared first on Sunfield.

If you really think about it, there needs to be a change in the ‘you’ in order for you to do to them what ought to be done with you. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 7:12, The Golden Rule appeared first on Sunfield.

When God brought you into his family he brought you into his family “as is,” just as you are — as bratty and filthy and cranky and petty and self-willed and disrespectful and disobedient as you are — he, while you were in the throes of a temper-tantrum said, “I’ll take that one. And not only will I take you, but I’ll take you and give you every privilege and joy and all the spiritual riches I can lavish on […] The post Matthew 7:7-11, The Generosity of God appeared first on Sunfield.

Being judgmental lands us in hot water with God because it usurps his role as the sole lawgiver and judge. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 7:1-6, Two Kinds of Judgment appeared first on Sunfield.

Perhaps the thing that makes worry so sinister is that it is a kind of maternal sin — it gives birth to a thousand others. You know what a number worry does on you. You know it when you see it. You know it when you experience it. And you know it’s wrong. You know that worry is bad for you. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 6:25-34, Worry, Fear, Anxiety, and the Gospel of Grace appeared first on Sunfield.