Read Matthew 6:19-34

      Jesus isn’t against self-interest – he is against foolish self-interest.  How foolish, according to Jesus, to spend your life...

Read Matthew 6:1-18

      “When you fast,” Jesus says.  It isn’t exactly a command to fast, but we don’t want to be looking for loopholes, do...

Read Matthew 5:21-48

      It’s human nature (in our fallen state) to look for loopholes.  A high school friend in Kingston was forbidden by his parents to drive...

Read Matthew 5:1-20

     Some teach that the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) was designed by Jesus only to drive us to the grace of God.  By pressing the demands of the...

Read Matthew 4:12-25

“And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the...