Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.