Episode 5: The haves and the have-nots

To understand the so-called “Beatitudes,” it’s helpful to read them alongside the similar statements of both blessing and woe that we find in Luke 6. Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann gives us a helpful way of understanding these strange pronouncements: they are words of blessing for the “have-nots” of society who need some good news from God. But what about the “haves”? How will more privileged people take what Jesus has to say?

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.