Good Morning! The study, Sermon on the Mount by Jen Wilkin, concludes today. All of the posts for this series can be found under the Bible Studies Archive tab. Our journey began with Jesus teaching a litany of blessings available to those who choose to live humbly and obediently to God. And now at the…
Good Morning! What do I treasure? Are my treasures impervious to decay or do they only last for a brief moment in time? Do I struggle with worry or anxiety associated with the people and things I hold dear? This week, we contemplated the answers to these questions as we studied the passages of scripture…
Good Morning! We began our journey through the sermon on the mount learning about the qualities and characteristics that a follower should possess. Next, we studied how we can be influencers for the kingdom of heaven by having righteous motives and actions. Then, we explored what righteousness looks like in the life of a believer…
Good Morning! How can my righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees? In Week 5, we continued to answer that question as we studied what righteousness looks like in a follower of Christ in the areas of divorce, oaths, retaliation, and loving one’s neighbor. These specific areas focus on our horizontal relationships with others…
Good Morning! “You have heard that it was said …” “But I say to you…” In Week 4, we delved a little deeper into understanding what Jesus meant by a righteousness that exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees. He taught that obeying God’s Law at face value wasn’t enough because the commands had deeper…
Good Morning! What type of character embodies a child of God? We began this study discovering how Jesus uses a series of eight statements to describe their characteristics in the first portion of his sermon. The person will be humble, will display godly grief over sin, will submit to God, and will have a hunger…
Good Morning! In our first week of the study, Sermon on the Mount by Jen Wilkin, we read and considered biblical treasures from the first ten verses of Matthew 5. This portion of the Sermon on the Mount is commonly referred to as the Beatitudes. The dictionary that I use states that a beatitude means…
Good Morning! Over the next nine weeks, we will be reading and studying Jen Wilkin’s study, Sermon on the Mount. The text for this study is found in the gospel of Matthew. Ms. Wilkin has generously included the text in the back of the participant’s guide. If you would like to use your own Bible…
Good Morning! “Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them,…” Matthew 5:1,2 I love a good opening line and this one found in the gospel of Matthew sets the stage for us. They are the opening lines…
Good Morning! The Sermon on the Mount found in Matthew 5-7 is the first of five discourses of Jesus found in Matthew’s gospel. Considered the longest recorded piece of Jesus’ teaching, these three practical chapters are filled with verses very familiar to most Christians. On September 26th, we will begin studying this wonderful text from…