Product Description
The Sermon on the Mount is probably the best known section of the entire Bible. Yet it is also one of the least understood parts of the teaching of Jesus Christ. ‘It is not a sermon about an ideal life in an ideal world,’ writes Sinclair Ferguson, ‘but about the kingdom life in a fallen world.’ It answers some of the most pressing questions every Christian encounters: What is a Christian? Does the law of God still have a place in the Christian life? How can I learn to pray? How can I learn self-discipline? Why am I a prisoner of anxiety?
Sinclair Ferguson’s The Sermon on the Mount deals with these issues in a crisp, concise, and readable way. It provides an ideal instruction to Jesus’ great manifesto for life in his kingdom.
Paperback, 184 pages
Publication Date: 1987
Table of Contents
Preface ix
1 The kingdom of God has come
Matthew 4:23-5:2
2 What are you before God?
Matthew 5:3-5
3 Filled with righteousness and mercy
Matthew 5:6-7
4 Purity, peace and persecution
Matthew 5:8-12
5 Future blessings now
Matthew 5: 1-12
6 The Christian in the world
Matthew 5: 13-16
7 Jesus, the law, and the Christian
Matthew 5: 17-20
8 The pure in heart.
Matthew 5:21-32
9 Oaths, eyes and enemies
Matthew 5:33-48
10 Life with Father
Matthew 6: 1-8, 16-18
11 How to pray and live
Matthew 6:9-15
12 Anxiety states cured
Matthew 6: 19-34
13 20/20 vision
Matthew 7: 1-12
14 Choices
Matthew 7: 7-29
Endorsement
‘Offers the perfect blend of scholarship and inspiration . . . a truly valuable book.’ — BOOK JOURNAL
Author
Sinclair Buchanan Ferguson held the position of the Charles Krahe chair for Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, and served as pastor to congregations in both Scotland and in the United States. A well-published author with a deep understanding of Scripture, Sinclair Ferguson books range from Child in the Manger, where Ferguson shares the true meaning of Christmas with impeccable scholarship and worshipful adoration, to From the Mouth of God, where he helps readers to trust, read and apply the lessons of the Bible as he answers questions Christians often wonder about. Sinclair Ferguson’s Sermon on the Mount has been called the “perfect blend of scholarship and inspiration…a truly valuable book” by Book Journal, while Devoted to God has been labeled as “brilliant,” one “fit to enter the rare company of the Christian classics.” Ferguson himself described material found in Devoted to God as “blueprints for sanctification.”
