Episode 57: Eyeballs

We now live in what some have called an “attention economy”—a world in which marketers and advertisers compete for a few moments of our attention as we stay glued to our electronic devices. But how we direct our attention has always mattered. That’s important to understanding what may seem like an odd saying of Jesus, that the eye is like the lamp of the body.

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.