Sermon on the Mount - Personal Study Guide: Blessings of the Kingdom - Softcover

Lifeway Adults

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1087783666 ISBN 13: 9781087783666

Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources, 2023

Synopsis

Sermon on the Mount - Personal Study Guide includes printed content for six sessions, applicable Scripture, and learning activities.

The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus's most well-known teaching, containing some of the best-loved verses in all of Scripture. In it, Jesus discloses what it means to take part in the good life—the kingdom of heaven that He has brought to the present with His incarnation that will extend into eternity. Through three chapters, Jesus challenges the assumptions of our earthly kingdom and shows how to strive for and participate in a better one.

Features:
? Six small group sessions
? Personal study opportunities for ongoing spiritual growth

Benefits:
? Learn directly from Jesus.
? Embrace the source of true blessing.
? See what it means to follow God.
? Find a path to fulfillment and flourishing that is not built on things that pass away but rather on foundations that are secured in heaven.
? Become familiar with a well-known Bible passage.
? See what is required to live as a citizen of the kingdom of heaven.
? Pursue blessing from God’s perspective.
? Begin to see Jesus’s perspective on our hearts.
? Follow Jesus as He transforms your will and intentions to reflect His.

About this title

About the Author

Jonathan Pennington, author of the Personal Study Guide, is a professor of New Testament Interpretation at Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also the spiritual formation pastor at Sojourn East and regularly speaks and teaches in churches all over the country. He earned a BA in history as well as a teaching certificate from Northern Illinois University. He received a master of divinity degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Chicago), where he also taught Greek for two years as an NT Fellow. He also holds a PhD in New Testament Studies from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland (in St. Mary’s College).

Argile Smith wrote the expositor’s notes for this resource. Argile serves as pastor of Parkway Baptist Church, Biloxi, Mississippi. He’s a graduate of William Carey College (BA) and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (MDiv, PhD).

Edition details

• Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1087783666
• ISBN 13: 9781087783666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96