Our family often vacations on the shores of Lake Superior and one of the activities we commonly engage in is skipping rocks. The Upper...

Does anyone really prefer a “maybe”? It depends on the question! Do I have cancer? Maybe. Will I win the lottery? Maybe. Those two...

Every New Year’s Eve I find myself wondering what the upcoming year will look like for me. What joys will surprise me? What newness will...

I have had the privilege, joy and sometimes burden of working with elderly folks as a pastor. I wrote that first sentence carefully and...

Today is the first Sunday of advent. There are so many themes to this season that have found me and hit me differently every year....

We must finish out Christ’s sermon by connecting the links of a chain. These last few sections are not random thoughts. They are...

Remember the two recurring themes of the Sermon on the Mount: Theme 1: “You have heard it said, but I say unto you.” D.A. Carson has...

Matthew 7:7-11 is yet another part of Christ’s sermon that when isolated, takes on an unintended meaning, but when kept within the...

Matthew 7:1-6 is a passage that has been ripped out of context in our culture today, and has been used to give permission and license for...

Carson writes in his book Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World , “Interpreting the Scriptures demands both...

The premise for the next section in Jesus’ sermon is to remember to keep God at the center of our heart's desires and affections. It is...

Martyn Lloyd-Jones says of this next section of Christ’s sermon that it is centered on life in the presence of God (Lloyd-Jones, 289). We...

Anger and divorce and the breaking of vows produces enemies. The fallout is conflict. Jesus is following the natural progression of sin...

We are living in a culture marked by influence. The word “influencer” has meaning not just in the realm of the ever-expanding universe of...

If the heart of the matter is the matter of the heart, then one of the goals Jesus had in His sermon was to reframe issues of...

Every major issue that I handle in pastoral counseling is covered to some degree in Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, from anger, to marriage...

In a world where sex is the driving force behind all that we do, and seeking that above all else is god, as believers the natural...

Matthew 5:21-26 says: "You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to...

When I was a young man studying in seminary, I can remember every year having to look through a rule book and running through a...

Up to this point, Jesus has laid the foundation for all the rest of the sermon that He will now teach. He wanted to begin with the...