The Sermon on the Mount: Brief Meditations

Jim Rapp presents a series of 26 brief studies of the Sermon
on the Mount. These provocative pieces are written to show that Jesus meant
what he said. The author believes that Jesus' teaching is as much a part of the
redemptive work he came to do as was his death on the cross; that he came to introduce
us to the kingdom of heaven here and now and that his moral teachings are
intended to guide us as we live in that kingdom awaiting the day when, by the
sacrifice of his blood, we will gain entrance into the eternal reward that
awaits us beyond this life. Without the map of Jesus moral teachings few who
come to believe in him would continue along that narrow path that leads to life
everlasting. Without the blueprint provided by Jesus moral teaching most will
build lives that look little different than those of their neighbors living in
the kingdom of this world.



Those who hear the words of this "best loved, least observed"
sermon, and practice them are like a wise man who built his house upon a rock.
Storms of doubt and temptation are unable to destroy a house thus built.