This is Danish artist Carl Heinrich Bloch’s depiction of Jesus Christ giving the Sermon on the Mount. Bloch lived from 1834-90. (Courtesy Photo) Told in its entirety only in Matthew 5-7, the Sermon on ...

Mar. 9—The Sermon on the Mount is a favorite scripture of many ministers because they feel that it expresses the essence of Christianity. Also known as The Beatitudes and related in Matthew 5:1-12 and ...

Can a document written over 2,000 years ago still be meaningful today? What is it in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in the Bible that still speaks to us? Our ways of living, our languages, our cultures ...

Have you heard the latest from some folks of the “Jesus-is-my savior/Trump-is-my-president” persuasion? They’re claiming the Sermon on the Mount was lily-livered liberalism. You can’t make this stuff ...

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill them" (Matthew 5:17). This verse comes from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three ...

Part 3 of Father Raymond J. de Souza’s five-part analysis of Pope Benedict’s book Jesus of Nazareth. Father Raymond J. de Souza Vatican August 21, 2007 This spring, Pope Benedict XVI published a ...

Ethics for Christians in Living the Sermon on the Mount. We can barely overstate the historic significance of the Sermon on the Mount for Christian ethics. Since the day Matthew recorded this ...

SOME of the advice Jesus offers in the Sermon on the Mount seems to be about as far from prudent thinking on life as it's possible, almost, to get. Faced with the evangelical counsel of perfection not ...

Joshua Dubois, center, introduces members of the new President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to President Barack Obama in the Oval Office Feb. 5. (CNS, courtesy White ...

“This was the center of Jesus’ public life here in the Galilee,” says Robert Funk as he walks into the ruins of ancient Capernaum. “This was where the Gospels tell us that Jesus called his first ...