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.

We approach the topic of marriage and divorce with grace and humility but also with boldness and determination to truly get the heart of what Jesus and the Scriptures say about the topic.

Jesus fully fills the seventh commandment and shows us what a greater righteousness looks like in dealing with sexual lust.

Jesus fully fills the sixth commandment and shows us what a greater righteousness looks like in dealing with our anger.

We must not “unhitch” ourselves from the OT — Jesus did not come to unhitch us from it, but to transform it, to fully fill it.

The “you are(s)” (the salt/the light) encourage us to reimagine our role in the world as God’s agents of redemption — this is no small thing.

The Beatitudes are “not a list of requirements, but rather a description of the life of a people gathered by and around Jesus.” — Stanley Hauerwas

“The more we explore their implications, the more seems to remain unexplored. Their wealth is inexhaustible. We cannot plumb their depths. Truly, ‘We are near heaven here.’”