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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

  • Westminster Shorter Catechism Series
  • Sermon on the Mount Series
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Sermon on the Mount Series


the-sermon-on-the-mountBelow is a list of the posts in the Sermon on the Mount Series. Click on the title to open the post.

  1. Where is the Crowd? – Matthew 5:1
  2. He sat down to teach – Matthew 5:1-2
  3. Introduction to the Beatitudes – Matthew 5:3-11
  4. The blessing of being poor – Matthew 5:3
  5. The blessing of mourning – Matthew 5:4
  6. Blessed are the meek; they get it all – Matthew 5:5
  7. Blessed are the meek – Part 2 – Matthew 5:5
  8. Hunger and Thirst for the Right Thing – Matthew 5:6
  9. Muddy Waters, Mercy and the Fifth Beatitude – Matthew 5:7
  10. Purity of heart is the means of seeing God – Matthew 5:8
  11. Toward being a peacemaker – Matthew 5:9
  12. The blessing of persecution – Matthew 5:10-12
  13. You are the salt of the earth – Matthew 5:13
  14. This little light of mine – Matthew 5:14-16
  15. Jesus and the law: What can we learn? – Matthew 5:17-19
  16. Righteousness, Scribes and Pharisees – Matthew 5:20
  17. You have heard . . . but I say – It is all about the heart
  18. More righteous than the Pharisees? – Matthew 5:20
  19. Righteousness before men – Matthew 6:1
  20. How can we coexist? – Matthew 5:10-11
  21. Please God Alone – Matthew 6:1
  22. You are the salt – Matthew 5:13
  23. You are the light – Matthew 5:14-16
  24. Giving to the Poor – Matthew 6:2-4
  25. Prayer – Pitfalls to Avoid – Matthew 6:5-7
  26. Your Father knows what you need, then why ask? – Matthew 6:8-9


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