"Sermon on the Mount" Tagged Sermons
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In this final week of a three-week worship series, we will explore Father Richard Rohr’s reading of the Sermon on the Mount with attention to final verses of Jesus’ sermon. Father Richard writes in Jesus’ Alternative Plan: The Sermon on the Mount, “Like any good spiritual teacher, Jesus sums up his sermon by calling his listeners to a choice, or an ‘altar call,’ as the tent meetings would describe it. The options are set before us in very clear and…
Pray Like This!
Many people believe it would simply be impossible to live the sermon on the mount while others believe the sermon on the mount sums up the totality of what our life on earth ought to be under God. Reading Matthew 5 – 7 may leave us desperately proclaiming, “You can’t be serious!” In this second week of a three-week worship series, we will explore Father Richard Rohr’s reading of the Sermon on the Mount with attention to the Lord’s Prayer.…
You Can’t Be Serious!
Many people believe it would simply be impossible to live the sermon on the mount while others believe the sermon on the mount sums up the totality of what our life on earth ought to be under God. Reading Matthew 5 – 7 may leave us desperately proclaiming, “You can’t be serious!” In this first week of a three-week worship series, we will explore Father Richard Rohr’s reading of the Sermon on the Mount. Father Rohr writes, “Jesus’ new world…
Cannonball
Matt’s message is rooted in Micah 6.8 & Matthew 5.21-37. The salty, light people of God are hanging around the edges of the pool, dipping their toes in the water, when Jesus cannonballs into the deep. Once he has their attention, Jesus calls them deeper into creatively, vulnerably, and honestly responding to the conflicts in which they are swimming.