The Jesus Way – 1 – Introduction
The setting has been imagined ever since Matthew penned his Gospel. A green Galilean mountainside. A crowd of curious everyday people from Galilee, the Ten Cities, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond…
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The Jesus Way #2 – Salt and Light
“You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and…
The Jesus Way – 3 – Are You Righteous?
Bias is normal. We all have a collection of defined and undefined rules that govern how we see and interact with our world. Those rules bias us towards certain actions…
The Jesus Way #4 – Don’t Murder or…
Hang around people long enough, and you soon realize they hate it when their foundational beliefs are challenged. And yet Jesus does just that. “You have heard that our ancestors…
The Jesus Way #5 – Be Reconciled
In our previous article (link), Jesus taught that murder is more than the physical act of ending life and that judgment would fall on disparaging and angry words spoken to…
The Jesus Way – Lust, Sex, and Adultery
Sex is good, but not all are spiritually, emotionally, and physically healthy. That is important to understand before we delve into the next part of The Jesus Way. In several…
The Jesus Way – Marriage and Divorce
A recent study, as reported in The Daily Wire(link is below), shows that a continuous marriage without divorce reduces the risk of dementia later in life. Interesting. There have also…
The Jesus Way – #8, Let Your Word Stand
The next topic in Jesus’ sermon on the mount seems almost trivial compared to murder, adultery, and divorce. But in several ways, it is more important than those three combined.…
The Jesus Way – Unbalanced Scales
We all have a built-in fairness scale. But, if we’re really honest, we’ll also admit that our fairness scale is skewed a bit in our favor. One part of that…
The Jesus Way – Love Your Enemies
Who is the hardest person to love? Or perhaps we could turn this around and ask – Who is the easiest to hate? That person or group is the very…
The Jesus Way – Giving Without Hypocrisy
Have you ever done the right thing in the wrong way? Or perhaps done the right thing with the wrong motives? All of us can probably raise our hand to…
The Jesus Way – No Show Prayers
Nuance is a troublemaker. We’d love for our convictions to be well-defined, stark, and without shadows. But that isn’t authentic or realistic. As we judge others with a lack of…