the beatitudes

Matthew 5:2-5:48 – The Citizens and Laws of the Kingdom

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After the very important drumrolls of Matthew’s first four chapters, we finally arrive at Jesus’s first recorded teaching of the Kingdom of Heaven, and it’s quite a doozy. There is more depth and breadth and width and height to the wisdom found within this passage than I can uncover. But […] Read more

Matthew 5:3-16 – The Father’s Kingdom on Earth

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Of the many courses I took in seminary, one of the more important ones was the course on Hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is not, as I used to think, the study of all people named “Herman,” but it is the study of how to properly read and interpret the Bible. One of […] Read more