Episode 56: Security

Our world is one in which people often learn to derive their sense of security from material things. But again, Jesus wants his followers to have a big-picture perspective. That’s why he taught them to pray the Lord’s Prayer. And that’s also why, immediately after, he taught them not to focus on the accumulation of earthly “treasure,” but to pursue heavenly treasure instead.

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.