Sermon Archives

As God’s children, how should we respond when people treat us badly? In Matthew 5:38-42, Jesus teaches us to meet hostility with grace – something he has done supremely for us when he died to save us.

One aspect of life in which we experience our fallenness most acutely is in the realm of love, sex and marriage. In Matthew 5:27-32, Jesus spells out God’s purpose for us in this area. By His Spirit, Jesus helps us to be faithful and reflect the faithful love he has shown us as his disciples.

“Thou shalt not murder” – it’s a commandment that receives almost universal recognition. But what does it imply? Is God content so long as we don’t kill one another? In Matthew 5:21-26, Jesus shows that the implications of this commandment are far deeper and wider than we expect. God isn’t just concerned murder but about […]

Having spelled out the Christian’s character and calling, Jesus begins to address our conduct – helping us grasp the relationship between Law and Grace and how what he has come to do relates to the Old Testament.

In the beatitudes, Jesus reveals the kind of character God looks on with favor. It’s a very different profile from the one we usually value.

As we start out our fall series in Matthew 5 we consider how we should approach the sermon on the mount. Is it general moral guidance? Does it just expose our moral failure? What do the context, content and connections with the Old Testament show us?