The Afterword

Tag: sermon-on-the-mount

  • Blessed in the Dust – Matthew 5:17-32

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    Peter
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    Jesus sits downand says to burdened people,Blessed. Blessed?Under Rome?Under law?Under shame?Under the endless need to prove ourselves? They know the weight of commandments,the crushing pressure of getting it right.And Jesus says:I have not come to abolish the Law,but to fulfil it.Not a dot will be lost. No wonder they slump in the dust. We know…

  • A Life I Inhabit – Matthew 5:1-6

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    Peter
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    I remember the mountain,not because I was there,but because its shapestill presses into the imagination: the climb,the gathered crowd,the teacher sitting down—not to perform,but to name realityand call a people into it. Not a checklist.Not a Sunday add-on. A kingdom announcement. After the gardenwe learned too much—love and hate,good and evil,kindness and crueltyall housed in…