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August 2014

August 29, 2014

Being Ted Haggard (by John Frye)

Being Ted Haggard (by John Frye) Much misunderstanding reigns in and damage inflicted by the...

August 15, 2014

The Sin is Mammonolatry (by John Frye)

“The irony of wealthy followers of Jesus cannot be ignored” writes Scot McKnight in the...

July 2014

July 11, 2014

The Old Rugged Words (John Frye)

The Old Rugged Words, by John Frye. We cannot separate the old rugged cross from...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

Words without Props (John Frye)

Words without Props, by John Frye I realize I have quite a challenge in reviewing...

June 06, 2014

The New Moses and the New People (John Frye)

John Frye, our friend up in Grand Rapids, is working his way through my Sermon on...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

What Kind of Ethics in Jesus’ Famous Sermon? (by John Frye)

The Sermon: What Kind of Ethics? Scot McKnight names a few scholars in his Acknowledgements...

May 23, 2014

The Sermon on the Mount: A Review (by John Frye)

What? Am I going to review Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount? No, I am not...

December 2013

December 11, 2013

How to Read the Bible as Jesus Did

Our passage [Matthew 5:17-20] is the most significant passage in the entire Bible on how...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

Jesus Begins on an Angular Note

I'm thinking about the Beatitudes of Jesus, those "blessed are..." statements." What are they about?...

November 18, 2013

The Sermon on the Mount as Gospel

In a day when some are erroneously suggesting that the Sermon on the Mount is...

May 2012

May 23, 2012

Theologians Thinking with Scientists

This is the second part of my presentation at BioLogos in March. Theologians thinking with...

January 2012

January 03, 2012

Squeezing the Heat out of Jesus’ Sayings

The Sermon on the Mount is laced together with strong statements by Jesus. How do...

February 2011

February 25, 2011

Jesus and the Torah

Matthew 5:38-42 contains Jesus' famous words on the lex talionis, the law of retribution. Here...

January 2010

January 28, 2010

A Good and Beautiful Life

Not that long ago I blogged through the first volume of James Bryan Smith's The...

February 2006

February 02, 2006

What is wisdom?

As a child in Sunday School we lustily sang the always boisterous song, "The Wise...

February 01, 2006

Talk about closing a sermon

Very few sermons close off as forcibly as the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus summons...

January 2006

January 31, 2006

Follower or Fraud?

How can you tell if a prophet is true or false? Jesus has a very...

January 30, 2006

How narrow is that gate?

There are, the famous opening lines of the Didache state, "two paths: one of life...

January 27, 2006

The Jesus Creed Lite

All of the Torah and all of the Prophets, Jesus says, are summed up in...

January 26, 2006

Does persistence pay in prayer?

The famous "ask-seek-knock" (ASK) passage -- is it teaching persistence or not? And is it...

January 25, 2006

Hogs and Dogs

The little parable of Jesus' about the hogs and dogs, in Matthew 7:6, can be...

January 24, 2006

Sharp eyes, dulled awareness

Humans, Dale Allison observes, have an "inbred proclivity to mix ignorance of themselves with arrogance...

January 23, 2006

Are you judgmental?

Fewer texts have been used more than Matt 7:1: "do not judge, or you too...

January 20, 2006

Birdwatching Spirituality

What Jesus taught from watching birds has troubled me for some time. I wonder how...

January 19, 2006

Master Mammon

It ought to be fairly easy to see that one cannot serve two masters, as...

January 18, 2006

The Eye of Generosity

It is pretty easy for Christians to skip along reading "the eye is the lamp...

January 17, 2006

Treasures: Here or There?

Jesus is both pragmatic and utopian in Matt 6:19-21. In a day when wealth and...

January 16, 2006

Hastening the Kingdom

Fasting at the time of Jesus had nothing to do with health, and everything to...

January 13, 2006

Short Prayers

Contextually, in the Sermon on the Mount the Lord's Prayer illustrates "short prayer" in contrast...

January 12, 2006

Conspicuous Prayer

Matt 6:5-6 is the second example of the principle of "no footprints" found in 6:1....