Category: Memorize

This week’s passage is a longer one, but it’s a section of the Sermon on the Mount that is very well-known: The Lord’s Prayer. It’s found in Matthew 6:9-13. I can remember standing and reciting this as a class prayer before lunch every day in Mrs. Moyel’s class when I was in third grade…. in…

Last week, we saw the first example of how not to pray that Jesus gave before he gave the model prayer. In this week’s passage, he gives us another bad example. Take a look at this passage in Matthew 6:7-8. It seem like our pride, and our desire to hear our own voices can be…

Prayer. Out of all the instructions that Jesus gave, this is perhaps one of the most important. The model prayer that Jesus taught us appears in Matthew 6, and this weeks passage introduces that entire section. You can find it at Matthew 6:5-6. Before Jesus gives us a model prayer, he gives us a couple…

This week’s passage completes the teaching on giving that began with the start of Matthew 6. Jesus teaches here that our giving should be done solely from the motivation of being for God; not so that others will see and congratulate us. This week’s passage is found in Matthew 6:3-4. Giving is an affair that…

Matthew 6 starts out with a few verses on the practical aspects of giving. While the specific context here is giving, the hypocritical nature being warned agains here really applies to every area of life. The text is from Matthew 6:1-2. Jesus is encouraging us to keep the proper motivation in our giving. I don’t…

This week I am posting two passages from the Sermon on the Mount. I didn’t get last week’s passage on here, and am posting it with today’s passage. Last week’s passage is from Matthew 5:43-45. This is the classic “Love your enemies” passage that we’ve heard all of our lives. It’s closely tied to this…