Showing posts with label Sermon on the Mount. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sermon on the Mount. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Blessed are the pure in heart

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369 Greenwood. S. M. 1 Blessed are the pure in heart,    for they shall see our God.    The secret of the Lord is theirs;    their soul is ...
Monday, July 03, 2023

Rescue operation?

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If this was a rescue operation, it was one with a difference. It wasn’t a matter of the God of Israel simply fighting off the wicked pagans a...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

The marketplace and truth

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But neutrality, with its deep skepticism, and the marketplace of ideas, with its collective search for truth, make strange bedfellows. What ...
Saturday, March 07, 2015

Miscellaneous wanderings and musings

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It's been a while since I posted stuff from elsewhere—not that I don't read it, I just fail to post it. Usually what happens is that...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

It's the life we live

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To respond to the Sermon is not to respond to an ethical vision. To respond is to respond to Jesus. The proper response is to declare who he...
Monday, February 16, 2015

In summary

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The fundamental aim of the Sermon is to present Jesus and his kingdom vision for his kingdom people, and the only acceptable response to thi...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Saved, but what for?

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Far too many think because they have “prayed to receive Christ,” they are safe and secure. I don’t want to dispute the all-sufficiency of Ch...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

What exactly is the Sermon on the Mount?

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Jesus here isn’t calling someone merely to a better moral life. Rather, his own presence looms in the entire Sermon as the one through whom ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

A high calling

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So the gate is not just a mild association with Jesus or some kind of general affiliation, but a radical commitment to Jesus as the one who ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The law of double love

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Jesus himself was law observant, but what distinguished his praxis was that he did so through the law of double love. To do the Torah throug...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Really?

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I am convinced that many of us, while we affirm that God is good and that God listens, do not act as if God cares and listens. In other wor...
Friday, February 06, 2015

Ask not...

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“But, for most of us, the problem is not that we are too eager to ask for the wrong things. The problem is that we are not eager enough to a...
Thursday, February 05, 2015

God? or Mammon? How to tell

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Anxiety is a barometer of one’s God: those with anxiety about “life” worship Mammon, while those without anxiety worship the providing God.—...
Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Theist or deist?

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Too often we believe like theists (a personal God) and act like deists (a distant, impersonal, noninteractive, uninvolved god). We say we be...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

The ramifications

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But what surprises us here is that the words used for “healthy” ( haplous ) and “unhealthy” ( ponēros ) are words often used for “generous” ...
Monday, February 02, 2015

Let's explain it away

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Like the ancient prophets, Jesus’ teaching in our passages isn’t simply about the ideal society, and neither is it an economic theory; this ...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Indeed!

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The irony of wealthy follower of Jesus cannot be ignored.— Sermon on the Mount , page 204
Thursday, January 29, 2015

The response

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We are body, soul, and spirit and not bodies with a spirit or soul dwelling in us. The former sees us as an organic unity, while the latter ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Do ut des?

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[T]he lack of emphasis on the promises that come to the one fasting—Jesus only promises “reward”—means we need to avoid motivating people to...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Turn it on its head

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Jesus may well be turning the act of fasting inside out in a comic act of exaggeration: the quintessential act of grief in the Jewish world ...