Lesson 11: Jesus’ Guide to Prayer
Thank you for joining me today for another step in our journey through the Sermon on the Mount. In this episode, we’re diving into Matthew 6:5-15, where Jesus continues shaping the hearts of his followers by teaching them how to pray. These verses contain both a strong warning and a beautiful invitation. We’re called away […]
The Power of Sin
Come to help me, for the multitude of my inveterate sins have made dense my too guilty heart; they have bent me, perverted me, have blinded me, have twisted me and withered me… – Anonymous, Litany of Confession, Irish, 15th century[1] There is no soundness in my fleshBecause of Your anger,Nor any health in my bonesBecause of my sin. […]
To Learn His Ways
Jesus throughout the Scriptures: Pre-exilic Prophets 4 (2) Pray Psalm 32.8, 9.I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;I will guide you with My eye.Do not be like the horse or like the mule,Which have no understanding,Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle,Else they will not come near you. Sing […]
A Matter of Preference
Our readings in this series are from the book, The Church Captive. Here is a brief excerpt from page 61: “[Alan Noble insists that our] failure to proclaim the full and true Gospel, as revealed in the Word of God, has encouraged the world to make up or seek to discover elsewhere its own best ideas about how […]
Stations of the Cross #4: The Denials of Peter
Spiritual darkness comes on horseback and goes away on foot. It is upon us before we know that it is coming.
Neighbors
Luke 10:25–37 (ESV) And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and […]