Category: sermon on the mount
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Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect (and other impossible-to-follow commands)

The one where I explain why God gives us commands that we can’t perform, and why that’s actually very good news.
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The broad way and the narrow way, part 2: What it means

In Matthew 7:13-14, Christ admonishes us that there is a broad way that leads to destruction, and a narrow way that leads to life. In this post, we learn what the broad way and the narrow way way each represent.
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The broad way & the narrow way, part 1: What it doesn’t mean

In Matthew 7:13-14, Jesus spoke about a broad way that leads to destruction; and a narrow way that leads to life. In part one of a two-post series on this passage, I correct two common misapplications of this text: first, that it means we must work hard at the Christian life, or we will lose…
