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  New Ways of Living

This series has explored new ways of living that Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount.

"If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

 
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  September 2003   Part 1—Matthew 6:11
A new way of eating: our daily bread

"I earn my bread; I deserve my bread." That's the old way of eating.
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  October 2003   Part 2—Matthew 6:8-9
A new way of belonging: as children

We belong to God as children, not as slaves trying to please a master
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  November 2003   Part 3—Matthew 6:10
A new way of seeing: "Your kingdom come"
Jesus' prayer reminds us that the way things are is not the way things always will be
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  December 2003   Part 4—Matthew 6:12
A new way of keeping score: "Forgive us our debts"
We keep scores that turn into grudges that become toxic--event lethal--to others and ourselves
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  January/February 2004   Part 5—Matthew 6:9-21
A new way of getting rich

Stewardship is about sharing and relationship, not about selfish accumulation
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  March 2004  

Part 6—Matthew 6:9-24
A new way of working

We multi-task all day—but where is the focus?
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  April 2004   Part 7—Matthew 7:1-5
A new way of judging: We have no business of usurping God's work of judging
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  May 2004   Part 8—Matthew 5:43-48
A new way of loving: Resentment is a lethal spritiual toxin. The love of Christ is the cure.
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  June/July 2004   Part 9—Matthew 6:1-4
A new way of giving: The mark a man or a woman makes ... is most often a trail of faithful love, and quiet mercies, and unknown kindness
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  August 2004   Part 10 —Matthew 6:16-18
A new way of fasting: We wish fasting would be quick and dramatically effective, but there is no spiritual liposuction
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