Rend your heart and not your garments. (Joel 2:13) “Rend your heart,” says Joel, “not your garments.” Rending, or tearing open, the garment ...

Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because n...

Working through Paul's letter to the Jesus believers at Philippi, I came across a Greek verb that caught my interest: apecho . It is a ...

Someone asked about the Sermon on the Mount, whether it is for today. I call it “The Sermon of the Kingdom,” because it is the announcement...

Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain d...

For those who have been following our series through what is commonly known as the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), and are waiting for th...

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...

Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men t...

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither...

In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come; Your will be done on earth as it is in h...

And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets,...

Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that ...

Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. ...

You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who cu...

You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps...

Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, “You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord.” But I say to...

You have heard that it was said to those of old, “You shall not commit adultery.” But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for...

In Matthew 5:21-48, Jesus deals with the kingdom of the heart. He comes, not to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfill them (v. 17...

Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but who...

Sometimes the Gospel writers use different events in the life of Jesus to indicate the same idea to the reader. I think Luke 4 uses the jubi...