This is Danish artist Carl Bloch’s depiction of Jesus delivering the Sermon on the Mount. Block lived from 1834-90. (Courtesy Photo) The Sermon on the Mount is a favorite scripture of many ministers ...

It’s a common saying that a homilist should prepare to preach with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. This week, as I was praying and meditating about our Lord’s teaching about being ...

This is Danish artist Carl Heinrich Bloch’s depiction of Jesus Christ giving the Sermon on the Mount. Bloch lived from 1834-90. (Courtesy Photo) Told in its entirety only in Matthew 5-7, the Sermon on ...

As a child, I occasionally wondered where God came from. Closely related to that issue was the question of what existed before God existed. If God created everything, then how did God get here? I have ...

No section of Scripture has been cited more than the Sermon on the Mount, Wilder said. "Conservative scholars love this passage of Scripture. Liberal scholars love this passage of Scripture," the ...

Cambridge, MA. It is the start of the new semester at Harvard, and these weeks are more than ordinarily busy — even as the relative quiet of the weeks between semesters and our 60+ inches of snow ...

“This was the center of Jesus’ public life here in the Galilee,” says Robert Funk as he walks into the ruins of ancient Capernaum. “This was where the Gospels tell us that Jesus called his first ...

From The New York Times comes yet another testimony to the power of a second-half, come-from-behind exhortation. The Kansas City Chiefs were down by 10 points, with less than 10 minutes to play. Their ...

Mar. 9—The Sermon on the Mount is a favorite scripture of many ministers because they feel that it expresses the essence of Christianity. Also known as The Beatitudes and related in Matthew 5:1-12 and ...

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