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Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner's Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7, contains some of Jesus most profound and most memorable teachings. What might these teachings have mean to his disciples, and to the others who first heard them? How do they enhance our reading of the rest of the Gospel of Matthew, and how do they speak across the centuries to listeners today? How, if we pay careful attention to his words, does Jesus provide...

In this book, we begin with the Beatitudes, move to Jesus’s Torah interpretation, see what Jesus says about practicing piety (a great section for those—of course, no one reading this study—whose practice of faith is more of a “look at me” than a “look to God”), encounter the Our Father prayer, and see how profound it is when heard through the ears of a first-century Jew living in the Roman Empire. We then move to Jesus’s wise words about how we find our treasures, and how easily we are distracted