Sermons

Today, we hear the 6 antithetical statements on Mosaic Law found in Matthew 5. There are more prescriptive statements that follow (and I invite readers to read Matthew 6), but these today deal with Mosaic law and we hear only four of the six in our Lectionary reading. As we consider them, we

In today’s story Jesus reminds us that we are the salt and light of the world. Salt and light are active descriptions of who Jesus’ followers are and what they are called to do. The story offers a corrective for Jesus’ original followers whose faith had become unbalanced. The

Today we hear the story of Jesus simultaneously teaching his disciples and the crowd gathered at the foot of the mountain. The Sermon on the Mount, or the Beatitudes, from Matthew’s Gospel cause us to reevaluate our definition of blessedness. To be blessed, or favored by God, happens in

This Sunday’s Scripture lesson from Matthew is packed with a lot of happenings that help build the story toward the beginning of Lent. Just after exiting the wilderness experience, Jesus is met with the bad news that John the Baptist has been arrested. We consider how much of our daily