Sermons

world, to change the people and to see the value and worth of others. The Beatitudes purpose was also to provide people with a pathway to follow to find the happiness with God in their lives that they’re in need of. According to the beatitudes, the sermon that Jesus gives using the beatitudes informs individuals how upright they must be in order to enter into the kingdom, and it explains what an upright life of citizens of the kingdom should look like. Furthermore, “the qualities of the…

Three Reasons why John Edwards Sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, is a Persuasive Essay During the mid 16th and 17th centuries, a new method of life arose and religion , this being called Puritanism. Puritans, who embodied the practices of Puritanism, sought to “purify” the Church of England of its Catholic practices. Moreover, as these Puritans began to travel overseas and inhabit the continent of North America, these Puritan views traveled over as well. America thus began on the…

Misfit feels about religion (O’Connor 645). Bellamy insists that the reason for the devilish message in the Misfit’s speech is due to his mission to play to role of the Anti-Christ. Bellamy asserts that, “The central message of the Misfit’s sermon, for a sermon is what his remarks amount to, is a familiar one in Flannery O’Connor’s fiction; there is no middle ground between absolute belief in Christ’s messianic fiction and a belief that like is nasty, brutish, and short,” (200). Katherine Feeley…

humanity about the incomprehensible value of mother earth. So, what is it that Christianity brings to the table? The Sermon on the Mount is the cornerstone of Christianity. It brings together and extends upon The Ten Commandments. It begins with the beatitudes, which is a blessing. Jesus, then, goes through the commandments explaining in more detail each one. The extensions of The Sermon on the Mount are the deeper illustrations of The Ten Commandments. Through the speech, he speaks of many…

Jesus was a teacher, interpreter of the law, and leader. One of Jesus’s significant interpretations is the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount was given to the people on how to love, how to flee from sin, and how to please God with out lives. Matthew 7:28-29 says, “When Jesus finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at His teachings because He taught…

This particular passage was one of many Jesus’ sermon on the Mount. It was also known as one of the centerpieces of Jesus’ teachings to the people and His disciples. This compilation of Jesus’ sermon on the Mount begin after Jesus saw the crowds that made Him went up on a mountainside to teach these people (5:1). Before He begun to teach them about “how to pray” or mostly known as the passage of “the Lord’s prayer,” Jesus had covered several different aspects, such as “being the salt and light…

The process of sermon formation takes on a different character for each preacher, a character as unique as the preacher themselves. The best approaches to preaching put the text first and allow the Holy Spirit through the text determine the best way to preach a particular passage. My personal approach to sermon formation has evolved over time as I have grown in my Christian walk, as my knowledge of the Bible and as I gain more experience as a preacher. My approach has especially evolved after…

evaluations will be subjected to the continuing and great correction. They will be made to fit into a total process producing good—not what is good for me (though my confidence accepts that as included), nor what is good for man (though that is also included), nor what is good for the development of life (though that also belongs in the picture), but what is good for being, for universal being, or for God, center and source of all existence (Dyck, 1973, p. 110). Like Niebuhr, Bonhoeffer…

how to act, how to serve, how to reflect the grace of God in all that we do. He gave us the Beatitudes. According to Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (2016), the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-16) “promises of happiness (blessedness) made in the Sermon on…

As I read the book I noticed that he had backed up his whole case for discipleship with Scripture. It almost seems like a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew as much time he gives to the Sermon on the Mount. As far as I could tell he handled the Scriptures well and I did not notice anything taken out of context. This to me strengthens his case because we cannot deny Scripture if it is handle correctly. Another strength would be that the…