In this next episode of the Sermon on the Mount, we start with two common pictures we're all familiar with from everyday life. No matter your location in the world—you know what salt and light are. We are to be salt, and we are to be light or better to state as the scripture states - we ARE salt, and we ARE light. We're going to take these one at a time, so today, we're just working through Matthew 5:13: "You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its ... continue reading...
EP 86: Introduction to the Sermon on the Mount Series {Matthew 5:1-2}
John Stott opened his book The Message of the Sermon on the Mount: Christian Counter-Culture with this sentence: "The Sermon on the Mount is probably the best-known part of the teaching of Jesus, though arguable it is the least understood, and certainly it is the least obeyed." As believers, we know parts of this Sermon preached by the greatest preacher who ever preached quite well. Jesus tells us in the Sermon not to be anxious, to put the kingdom first, and not to lay up treasures on ... continue reading...