Sermon on the Mount

September 25, 2017
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MATTHEW 6:5-18: DO YOU PRAY IN SECRET?

Do you pray? If so, do you pray secretly as well as publicly. If we pray at all, we need to pray secretly. If we pray publicly but not secretly, we may need to ask ourselves if we’re being honest to God followers of Jesus.

September 25, 2017
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MATTHEW 6: ARE YOU IMPRESSED?

Most of us want to impress other people in some way. None of us are totally immune from this as human beings. Jesus says we need to be careful in this area. He says when we do deeds to impress others rather than out of devotion and love for God, well, God is not impressed!

September 24, 2017
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MATTHEW 5: GOTTA DO BETTA THAN THE PHARISEES!

A big key that helps understand the Sermon on the Mount is to pay attention to Jesus saying, “For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. In this post Greg Taylor points to six ways Jesus declares that we are to “surpass the form of righteousness” practiced by religious people.

September 20, 2017
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MATTHEW 5: YOU ARE BLESSED

Over the years The Journey preacher Greg Taylor has studied, prayed through, memorized portions of the Sermon on the Mount, but more than anything else, he has started to think and pray about how to live it as a “field manual for Doing what Jesus Says in the Sermon on the Mount.”

September 17, 2017
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