Holy Words From Holy Cross

What can it mean that our righteousness must exceed that of the Scribes and the Pharisees?  How can we do that?  The answer lies in the Biblical concept of justification. Let's learn about that together.

How can we possibly keep Jesus' new commandments and possess a righteousness that exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees?  The answer may surprise you.

As Jesus presents His most comprehensive moral teaching in the New Testament, what is He really doing?  Is He just giving us more rules to live by?  What is the ongoing significance of God's Law given at Mt. Sinai?  Jesus' at first perplexing words at this point should draw us into deep reflection.

Verses 5:13-16 in Matthew's Gospel mark a transition in the Sermon on the Mount.  What is going to be the purpose of the rest of Jesus' lengthy discourse?  Let's listen in and find out.

What are the famous "blessed's" that kick off Jesus' Sermon on the Mount?  A prescription for living?  A declaration of God's grace?  Something else entirely?  Let's explore Jesus' words together.

Who heard Jesus preach His most famous sermon?  Why is that important to our understanding of it today?

The doctrine of the Trinity is monumentally confusing for many Christians and a positive stumbling block to non-Christians who might become Jesus' disciples if they didn't have to believe it?  Why does the Church not only hold on to it, but even hold onto it as one of the only two doctrines that define you as a Christian?  Let's explore this question together...

There are so many voices out there telling us what the Bible means... how are we to sort among them?  God has given us a guide by giving us Himself in the Holy Spirit.

What is the significance of Christ's ascension?  In a day and age when we can send people to the moon, what does it even mean to say He "rose to the right hand of the Father?"  It means a great deal, and is no artifact of a primitive time.

Jesus' famous words "I am the way, and the truth, and the life" were spoken in the midst of a time of great fear... a time like we are experiencing now.

The words of Psalm 23 are very familiar to most Christians--maybe too familiar.  In this sermon we slow down to linger over the words of this familiar section of Scripture and consider what they meant to David... and what they might mean to us today.

During this special sermon, reference is made to the picture to be found at the following link:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Supper_at_Emmaus,_by_Rembrandt.jpg

If there is one person we sympathize with in Scripture it is Thomas.  We have all been zealous for God at times and at other times had our doubts.  How are we all like Thomas?  What is Jesus' reaction to Thomas?

In 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic is the center of our focus.  What good amid this is the Easter proclamation?