Bitsy at Jack Of All Trades is giving away Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World: An Exposition of Matthew 5-10 by D.A. Carson.

Drawing rules:

• Shipping to USA addresses only. (My sincere apologies to my overseas friends, but postage is what it is!)
• Post here and on your blog for two entries. (either/or will get you one.)

The Sermon on the Mount is one of my favorite parts of the Bible and this book has been on my list already.

Oswald Chambers sums up what the Sermon on the Mount is all about.

“He came to make us what He teaches we should be.”

The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount produces despair in the natural man–the very thing Jesus meant it to do. As long as we have a self-righteous, conceited notion that we can carry out Our Lord’s teaching, God will allow us to go on until we break our ignorance over some obstacle, then we are willing to come to Him as paupers and receive from Him. ‘Blessed are the paupers in spirit,’ that is the first principle in the Kingdom of God. The bedrock in Jesus Christ’s kingdom is poverty, not possession; not decisions for Jesus Christ, but a sense of absolute futility–I cannot begin to do it. Then Jesus says–Blessed are you. That is the entrance, and it does take us a long while to believe we are poor!

Matthew 5:3

In light of the post here on Divorce, Expository Thoughts blog has compiled a Recap of the Divorce Debate.

The only reason I originally brought this up is because we’re studying the Sermon on the Mount in our Bible study. Jesus talks about divorce in Matthew 5:31-32 so I looked into it a little bit and also happened to come across the first article while browsing Christianity Today’s web site.

I will refrain from comment and let the articles and Scripture speak for themselves.

The comments on all these articles are very interesting although there is a lot to wade through.

Relisting of related Scripture:
Malachi 2:13-16, Matthew 5:32, Matthew 19:9-11, Mark 10:11-12, Luke 16:18, Romans 7:2, 1 Corinthians 7:15