Becoming Disciples of Divine Love
Luke 6:27-49 Luke 6:27. We are continuing our study of Luke and his unique and powerful record of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. We have noted before that this sermon, the Sermon on the Mount, may be Jesus’ most famous sermon. His most well-known sermon. It contains the Beatitudes, which we’ve already studied and come through. It also contains like well-known as the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” That’s contained here…
A Sober Warning to the Worldly-Contented
Luke 6:24-26 You can turn in your Bibles to Luke 6:20 as we take a look this morning at the four woes. This is our four corresponding woes to the four beatitudes he gave in, we’ll look at that whole section, Luke 6:20 to 26. Interestingly, this is how Jesus finishes his introduction to his sermon with four woes, which really you could consider a, a gospel call to all the non-disciples in the gathered crowd. Each woe that he…
The Attributes of God’s Greatness: God the Trinity
As you know, we finished the first subheading under the first major category of theology proper; God’s greatness and immortal spirit. I’d originally intended to get into a second subheading under God’s greatness called God the Creator, but I said, I decided to make that the third subheading and insert something in between. I debated whether or not to deal with the Trinity under the God creator category. Since we come to know God’s triune personality through creation, but I’ve…
The Way of the Blessed
Psalm 1:1-6 Psalm 1 is, as you know, the gateway to the Psalter, to 150 psalms, which is the really the songbook of Israel. And the psalms in their entirety, they describe the, the life and experience of the believer. From positive to negative and everything in between, the songbook of Israel provides and outlet, an expression of praise to God and prayer to God in all of life and its experiences. Really the Psalm 1 speaks of the, of…
Our Response to Godly Church Leadership
Hebrews 13:17