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 ...

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 ...

The most famous sermon in history is Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount.” Matthew writes the most compelling ideas and proverb-like sayings of any of Jesus’ messages. We see the Kingdom’s attitude toward ...

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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 ...

Early in his introduction, Glen Stassen asks why a book on the Sermon on the Mount belongs in Jossey-Bass’s series called Enduring Questions in Christian Life. The Sermon on the Mount is indeed an ...