This is the first sermon in a new four-part series: “The Gospel According to Esther.” God is never directly spoken of in Esther’s pages, yet Esther’s story has something to teach us about the strength of God’s enduring faithfulness to us.

Pastor Tanner unpacks Jesus’ humble act of washing the disciples’ feet in John 13. The text confronts us with the depth and beauty of Jesus’ love, and a command that is only possible through his redemption.

We conclude our study of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount with the parable of the two builders. The point of the parable has to do with where we rest our foundation for life and living.

In concluding his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus makes distinctions between true and false beliefs, true and false teachers, and true and false followers. In a sermon in which he has offered himself as the ultimate authority on what’s true and what’s false, this is an expected conclusion.

Here is the second time Jesus addressed prayer in his Sermon on the Mount. But this time Jesus speaks less about how to pray, more about why. In today’s message, we’ll learn what it means to ask, seek, and knock, and why it matters that we persist in doing so.

In our text this morning from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus addresses judgment and judgmentalism. What’s the difference and why does it matter?

Today being New Year’s Eve, we take a break from our trek through Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount to consider Jesus’ call to come to him, to take his yoke upon ourselves, to experience his

rest.

In our text this morning, Jesus addresses money and material possessions and how the pursuit of those things and worrying about them affects us.

In our text this morning, Jesus addresses forgiveness. We’ll look at the why, what, and how of it.

Jesus gives us some don’ts and do’s for praying in our passage today.