Jesus addresses a tricky and complex situation. In The Old testament times God had instructed His people in the 10 commandments not to lie, and especially when they had used His name to back up a promise.
Jesus addresses a tricky and complex situation. In The Old testament times God had instructed His people in the 10 commandments not to lie, and especially when they had used His name to back up a promise
How to Avoid Sexual Sin Matthew 5:27-30
Anger management specialist Leonard Ingram says that: Anger is a natural human emotion…the problem is not anger, the problem is the mismanagement of anger. In these verses Jesus says there’s a secret place in the human heart where even our angry thoughts can lead us to murder.
“ The way of kingdom living in the early church was distinctive and missional. It was described as The Way (Acts 19v8-9) denoting that the people of The Way are called to action, a mode of interacting with the world
How to Live Under God’s Blessing Matthew 5:1-6
Matthew 6 For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen!
Jesus encourages us firstly to ask for our daily bread and in the very next line our daily forgiveness. When we confess our selfishness to Jesus and ask Him to rule our lives, we are forgiven!
The literal translation of today’s text is give us enough to survive this day. The prayers had to believe that God could do it, if he didn’t they would literally starve.
When we pray ‘Your Kingdom come’ we need to understand what we are asking for, as how we think about God’s Kingdom to come affects how we view God’s Kingdom on earth now.
Heather introduced her talk with the assertion that “learning is so much easier when we are handed the controls!” Can you think of example of where that may be true?