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The Sermon on the Mount: A Heart of God's Kingdom

In the book of Matthew, Jesus announces the beginning of his ministry by exclaiming, “Repent! Turn around! The Kingdom of heaven has come near!” Shortly thereafter, Matthew records for us Jesus’ famous Sermon on the Mount, recorded in Matthew chapters 5 through 7, where Jesus explains what will need to change in our hearts and in our behavior in order for the Kingdom to show up with the nearness Jesus announced.

When we listen closely to all three chapters of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, we begin to hear a theme develop: for us to truly live as if the Kingdom of heaven is near, our emotional life is one of the places where Jesus calls us to “repent” or “turn around.” In this sermon series, we’ll listen for the ways Jesus invites us to mold and shape our emotional lives as Kingdom people while acknowledging what it is about being human that makes that molding and shaping difficult.