Can a document written over 2,000 years ago still be meaningful today? What is it in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in the Bible that still speaks to us? Our ways of living, our languages, our cultures ...

This is Danish artist Carl Bloch’s depiction of Jesus delivering the Sermon on the Mount. Block lived from 1834-90. (Courtesy Photo) The Sermon on the Mount is a favorite scripture of many ministers ...

It’s a common saying that a homilist should prepare to preach with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. This week, as I was praying and meditating about our Lord’s teaching about being ...

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 ...

This is Danish artist Carl Heinrich Bloch’s depiction of Jesus Christ giving the Sermon on the Mount. Bloch lived from 1834-90. (Courtesy Photo) Told in its entirety only in Matthew 5-7, the Sermon on ...

From The New York Times comes yet another testimony to the power of a second-half, come-from-behind exhortation. The Kansas City Chiefs were down by 10 points, with less than 10 minutes to play. Their ...

One man’s mountain is another man’s plain. In Luke (6:12-17, which precedes today’s Gospel) Jesus goes up a mountain to spend a night in prayer. The next morning he picks his Twelve Apostles. Then, ...

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 ...

The Sermon on the Mount concurs with all the teachings of Christ in allowing a certain jurisdiction to civil law, and the example of the Apostles, as well as their precepts, proves them to be ...

Jun. 24—Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same ...