If the Kingdom vision that Jesus tells us of doesn’t reshape our approach to possessions, then we are not living out the Kingdom vision.

Fasting is the way — at least as it appears in the Bible — to act in solidarity and in true sympathy with those things — with the suffering of the world around us.

There’s so much more to the Lord’s Prayer than many of us realize and exploring its depths brings about a prayer that was both designed to be recited and aid in our spiritual formation.

We need to make time to spend devoted time in prayer and, remembering Luther’s words, make our prayers “brief, consistent, and intense.”

When we aim towards generosity out of a motivation of being seen and praised by others, or even to impressed by ourselves, then we fail to actually pursue the kind of Christ-honoring righteousness he calls us to.

Righteousness, according to Jesus, is whole-person behavior that accords with Gods’s nature, will, and coming kingdom.

Loving our enemies cannot be reduced to mere “tolerance.” We must pray for them and strive for them to become the sort of person/people that God wants them to be!

As disciples, we are willing to be degraded because we recognize we have been upgraded through Christ. We are willing to be treated unjustifiably because we have been justified eternally through Christ.

The word of the Christian is absolutely vital. Being “imitators of God” means our words should be like his — life-giving and truthful.