Khotbah di Bukit mungkin merupakan bagian Kitab Suci yang paling terkenal. Akan tetapi, Khotbah di Bukit juga merupakan salah satu bagian pengajaran Kristus yang paling kurang dimengerti dengan benar. Sinclair B. Ferguson menulis, "Khotbah ini tidaklah bercerita tentang suatu kehidupan ideal di tengah dunia ideal, khotbah ini mengajarkan tentang suatu kehidupan sorgawi di tengah dunia berdosa".…
To remain connected through the beauty and depth of Christian liturgy. Like the original edition, this pocket edition features prayers for morning, midday, and evening, and commemorates significant dates and heroes in church history, as well as important people and events in the struggle for freedom and justice. This edition also features new compline prayers and provides prayers for those who …
The Sermon on the Mount is one of the most familiar passages in the New Testament. In this concise and clearly-written introduction to and commentary on the Sermon, Charles Talbert pays particular attention to its role in character formation and ethical decision making. After introductory chapters on reading the Sermon on the Mount, the book offers a section-by-section commentary. Talbert point…
The strength of Puritan character and life lay in prayer and meditation. In this practice the spirit of prayer was regarded as of first importance and the best form of prayer, for living prayer is the characteristic of genuine spirituality. Yet prayer is also vocal and may therefore on occasions be written. Consequently in the Puritan tradition there are many written prayers and meditations whi…
To Isaac Watts, prayer was more than a duty required in the worship of God. It was 'the conversation which God allows us to maintain with himself above, while we are here below...in which the soul of a saint often gets near to God, experiences great delight and, as it were, dwells with his heavenly Father for a short time before he comes to heaven.' But Watts knew that most Christians need help…
One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus. What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bo…
Our Lord knew the value of prayer. The Bible says at times Jesus would rise a great while before dawn and go Into the mountain to pray. In the evenings He would walk down the slope of the backside of Jerusalem across the Kidron Brook and ascend the Mount of Olives. There He communed with the Father, sometimes all night long. So when Christ said in Matthew 6:9, "After this manner, therefore, …