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2/27/2011      Greater Righteousness: Vision Practice (Matthew 6.1-23)

I. Introduction

  • We begin with spiritual practices – traditionally, we call them disciplines – among Baptists, there has usually been less emphasis on the disciplines than in some other Christian traditions – among the reasons for this are at least read more »

2/20/2011      Greater Righteousness: Different Relationships (Matthew 5.33-48)

I. Introduction

  • For several weeks now we have been working our way through Jesus’ so-called Sermon on the Mount – I have said that the Sermon is Jesus’ summation, or at least the Evangelist’s summation, of Jesus’ teaching about the read more »

2/13/2011      Greater Righteousness: New Relationships (Matthew 5.21-32)

I. Introduction

  • Ours is a broken world – relationships between God and humankind, relationships between individuals and between groups, between organizations and between nations, all of them demonstrate to one degree or another the brokenness of creation

  • Many of you probably are familiar with the Hebrew phrase read more »

2/6/2011      Beginning with Salt and Light (Matthew 5.13-20)

I. Introduction

  • I do not want the sermon today to be a physics lesson – if I did, I would do better to let Dr. Bill Riley teach it – but I want us to begin by considering the ideas of mass and energy, not in their strict, read more »