Sublime

This is the final remnant of the Christianity of their ancestors, the last enduring bit of their inheritance: a social gospel, without the gospel. For all of them, the sole proof of redemption is the holding of a proper sense of social ills. The only available confidence about their salvation, as something superadded to experience, is the

In the United States, numbers impress us. We gauge the success of an event by how many people attend or come forward. We measure churches by how many members they boast. We are wowed by big crowds. Jesus questioned the authenticity of this kind of record keeping. According to the account in Luke chapter 8, when a crowd started following Him, Jesus

Jesus is presented as the liberator of the poor, the sick, sinners, the socially and religiously marginalized.

AS RELIGION BEGAN TO OCCUPY a more prominent place in the Israeli public square, a similar phenomenon was transpiring elsewhere in the Middle East, particularly in the countries that bordered Israel.

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The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount must produce despair in the unsaved person; if it does not, it is because he or she has paid no attention to it. When you do pay attention to Jesus Christ’s teaching, you will soon say, like the apostle Paul, “Who is sufficient for these things?” (2 Corinthians 2:16). The answer is this: “Blessed are the pure