Jesus continues on in the Sermon on the Mount in the form of a jigsaw puzzle – what He’s teaching isn’t directly related to the teaching before or after it, but yet is important to r

Worry is a staple of life, and Jesus famously commands to not worry in Matthew 6. What does this mean? Does it mean don’t stress? Have no concern for things? How can we not worry when it seems t

Jesus is interested not only in what we do, but how and why we do it, very much because what and why we do things impacts our true focus of our worship, our trust, and how we view God in our lives. To

As Jesus continues the Sermon on the Mount, He begins to focus in from the general view of the Kingdom citizen into the practices, specifically the hypercritical practices, of the leaders around Him,

After the introduction of the Kingdom Portrait of the Beatitudes, Jesus then delves into practical living, what the influence of salt and the beacon of light looks like among those who believed in Scr

When Jesus began His sermon, He didn’t start with a story, or a joke, or a poem, He started with a radical image – the Beatitudes. The Beatitudes are somewhat often misinterpreted as to th

Josh Stutzman continues our year in Matthew by looking at Jesus beginning to call His disciples. He looks a the OT reference of people sitting in darkness, and explains why it’s worth repenting,

Today we address the temptation of Jesus, but we don’t just take a surface level look at the temptations. Today, we take an at time uncomfortable dive into the temptations behind the obvious tem

In Matthew 3 we meet Jesus’ cousin, John the Baptist. John came preaching repentance, and came with a special anointing of his own to now only anoint Jesus to start His ministry, but an anointin

“The Dark Side of Christmas” as one commentator put it, is an odd text to base a sermon around, yet Matthew has included it whereas other gospel writers didn’t, and indeed intentiona