by chaplainshawn | Feb 8, 2025 | Sermon on the Mount
You Have Heard ASSIGNMENT: Read this lesson and Matthew 5:21-48. This passage is what Bible scholars call the “six antitheses.” It is how Jesus has taken God’s expectations and bumped them up a notch. He begins with, “You have heard.” And...
by chaplainshawn | Feb 7, 2025 | Sermon on the Mount
Righteousness ASSIGNMENT: Read this lesson and Matthew 5:13-20 | NIV. There is no substitute for righteousness in a disciple’s life. Have you ever purchased a product patterned after a successful, more costly brand, only to be disappointed by its quality,...
by chaplainshawn | Jan 31, 2025 | Sermon on the Mount
The Beatitudes, Part 2–How We Relate to Others ASSIGNMENT: Read this lesson and Matthew 5: 7-10. 7 Blessed are the merciful,for they will be shown mercy.8 Blessed are the pure in heart,for they will see God.9 Blessed are the peacemakers,for they will be called...
by chaplainshawn | Jan 21, 2025 | Sermon on the Mount
Our View of Ourselves Before God This is Jesus’s longest sermon, a primer on Christian discipleship that describes life in God’s kingdom on earth. It begins by describing our view of ourselves before God. ASSIGNMENT: Read this lesson, Matthew 5:1-7, Exodus...
by chaplainshawn | Jan 21, 2025 | Sermon on the Mount
Please read this lesson before the first meeting. Religion and Resistance The Sermon on the Mount is a discipleship guide to complete surrender and obedience to Jesus as we live his way in the kingdom of God. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses...
