Episode 49: Big-picture prayer

The first part of the Lord’s Prayer is what I call a “big-picture” prayer, a prayer not just for the things we want or need, but for the world. The second half of the prayer then seems to turn to the smaller matters of our daily needs. But it’s important, even when praying for these, that we not lose the big-picture perspective with which the prayer began…

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.