Ethics for Christians in Living the Sermon on the Mount. We can barely overstate the historic significance of the Sermon on the Mount for Christian ethics. Since the day Matthew recorded this ...
David Buttrick, who through his teaching and writing has shaped a generation of Pro­testant preachers, admits he is not "a guild-approved" biblical scholar. But he here puts forward a homiletic method ...
Last week, the media was abuzz with the scandal that a University of Cambridge dean had claimed that Jesus may have been transgender. The news was first reported in Telegraph, with other outlets like ...
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill them" (Matthew 5:17). This verse comes from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three ...
Joshua Dubois, center, introduces members of the new President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to President Barack Obama in the Oval Office Feb. 5. (CNS, courtesy White ...
Christian believers are called to “remember their dignity” and to seek and always to live the abundant life offered in Jesus Christ. Admittedly, this is a tall order. What person has always honored ...
Have you heard the latest from some folks of the “Jesus-is-my savior/Trump-is-my-president” persuasion? They’re claiming the Sermon on the Mount was lily-livered liberalism. You can’t make this stuff ...
It is widely agreed that Peter probably passed on the content of this Gospel to John Mark who crafted this masterful work. Many scholars tentatively hold to a date around AD 65 for this Gospel which ...