Episode 59: This is my Father’s world

Matthew portrays the Sermon on the Mount as being preached outdoors; that’s how Jesus often spoke to large crowds. And as he turns to the universal subject of the worries and anxieties of life, he makes use of what’s at hand for sermon illustrations. There are lessons to be learned from the birds and the flowers, if we can remember the hand that created them.

What is Chunks: The Sermon on the Mount?

The "Sermon on the Mount," found in Matthew chapters 5 through 7, contains some of the best-known teaching of Jesus, including the Lord's Prayer. It also includes some of the most ethically challenging words in all of the New Testament. This show will explore the sermon bit by bit, as Jesus calls believers to a kind of righteousness that is lived out in the everyday challenges of relationships.