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 7, 2021
These teachings are now available in 30 minute videos at our YouTube channel at 721ministries.org. As we exit 2020 and begin … the rest of your life … I want to share again a short story with you about a rabbi […]
October 2, 2019
In sports, there is the rulebook, and there is the playbook. The rule book is the list of all the things one cannot do. The rulebook does not list all the things one can do because that is practically limitless. […]
August 21, 2019
As we continue through to the end of summer, I am continuing our Summer Format, which opens with a three minute recorded synopsis of my favorite Oswald Chambers devotions, followed by the written devotion itself. I encourage you to listen […]
July 18, 2019
This summer I am going to use a different Summer Format, which will open with a three minute recorded synopsis of my favorite Oswald Chambers devotions, followed by the written devotion itself. I encourage you to listen to the 3 […]