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Yesterday, I happened a cross a video of a Jewish comedian. And the clip wasn’t funny at all - but it was interesting. And the comedian himself made a joke about exactly that. But he is doing crowd work and he asks religious people to clap. And as they do he spots someone clapping in the crowd and he…

While we technically, finished the beatitudes last week, we are still in the introduction of the Sermon on the Mount. Next week, we will finish the introduction And then from verse 21 on Jesus gets to the body of the sermon. This portion of the text is a follow up to the Beatitudes. Since all of these…

Today we come to the conclusion of the beatitudes, and while I have argued that others are more difficult to understand, I think the one today might be the most difficult to swallow. It makes sense, but I get the sense that most of us made not like it. And unfortunately, it is the beatitude I was least…