Posted in Sermon on the Mount on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the [...]
Posted in Sermon on the Mount on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will [...]
Posted in Sermon on the Mount on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how [...]
Posted in Sermon on the Mount on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather [...]
Posted in Sermon on the Mount on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
“The eye [...]
Posted in Sermon on the Mount on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but [...]
Posted in General on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While preparing a Sunday School lesson on Hebrews 11:1-3 for this past Lord’s Day, I came across the following in my notes from the first time I read J. Gresham Machen’s What is Faith?
Christ touches our lives, according to the New Testament, through the Cross. We deserved eternal death, in accordance with the curse of [...]
Posted in Sermon on the Mount on July 14, 2008 | 7 Comments »
We come now to Christ’s instruction on how to pray. When our prayer life seems to have run aground, it often helps to go back and pray the Lord’s Prayer. Here we see a general outline for our prayers.
Our Father: This is a prayer for believers only. While God may be seen as the Father [...]
