Sermon on the mount

A comparison of prayer in Matthew 6:5-15, encapsulated within the “Sermon on the Mount” with John 17, the culmination of the “Farewell Discourse” reveals that both are necessary to demonstrate the success of Jesus’ completed mission while simultaneously catapulting the disciples…

Jonathan Edwards Jr. (1745–1801) is often portrayed as a spiritless preacher who drove away his congregation with metaphysical abstractions. Accordingly, this received caricature describes Edwards Jr. as distorting the Edwardsean legacy. This negative caricature of Edwards Jr wa…

In recent years, the "Jewish Jesus" has been a dominant theme within New Testament studies. That being said, however, questions about the relationship between homiletics and Jesus' Jewish DNA have largely been left "unasked." Hence, this study investigates how a more Jewish unde…