March 31, 2022
For the video teaching on this, please link to our 721 Ministries Videos on Vimeo. “And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. 37 All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ […]
March 24, 2022
For the video teaching on this, please link to our 721 Ministries Videos on Vimeo. “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you […]
March 17, 2022
For the video teaching on this, please link to our YouTube channel at 721ministries.org Last week we started to … nervously? … look at Jesus’ words on lust: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But […]
March 10, 2022
This is one you really want to watch on our YouTube channel at 721ministries.org After Jesus drills down on anger, he starts really meddling when he says, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But […]
March 2, 2022
For the video teaching on this, please link to our YouTube channel at 721ministries.org As Jesus teaches through his Sermon on the Mount, he is showing us that even though our sinful actions are … sinful, they originate first in our […]
February 24, 2022
For the video teaching on this, please link to our YouTube channel at 721ministries.org “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ 22But I tell […]
February 17, 2022
For the video teaching on this, please link to our YouTube channel at 721ministries.org At the outset of his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells us he has not come to abolish the Older Testament, but to fulfill it.1 He meant, […]
February 8, 2022
Jesus told us he had not come to abolish the Older Testament, but to fulfill it.1 He meant, in part, that he had come to fulfill the Spirit of his Father’s teachings, and to move us away from legalistic rule-keeping. Jesus […]
February 3, 2022
In his Sermon on the Mount, after his Beatitudes and before he launches into the meat of his talk, Jesus pauses, and so will we. He pauses to introduce his main teaching by saying this: Do not think that I […]
January 27, 2022
In his Sermon on the Mount, after his Beatitudes and before he launches into the meat of his talk, Jesus tells his followers: “You are the salt of the earth. …You are the light of the world.” (Matthew 5:13-14) Last […]
January 19, 2022
As Jesus transitions from his Beatitudes into the depth of the Sermon on the Mount, he makes a declaration: “You are the salt of the earth. …You are the light of the world.” (Matthew 5:13-14) What jumps out at me […]
January 13, 2022
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were close friends, both with absolutely brilliant minds, and the ability to make seemingly complicated theology very simple. Lewis famously observed, “Jesus is either who he said he is, or he is a liar or […]