In the second half of Matthew 5, Jesus lays out the relationship of the children of the kingdom to the law according to his own fulfillment of it. In the first half of Matthew 6, we encounter a furthe
More than 2,000 elders gathered in Louisville, KY, for this year’s annual meeting of the Presbyterian Church in America from June 22 to 25. This is an important meeting for our denomination, as we gat
Among the antithetical sayings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus raises an issue with the marriage vow by quoting the words of Moses from Deut 24:1-4. Broadly speaking, the intent of those ve
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