Lessons from the Mount: First Week Recap

If you have been reading the Sermon on the Mount with me this past week you will have read it a total of 21 times so far! Kudos to the commitment that those of you who are following along with me have made! I pray that you will continue to read along with me and that God will work in your life through these three chapters!


So far I have noticed a couple of things that I wanted to share. The first is that there are so so so many songs based on the words from these chapters. The lessons that Jesus gives us here are very important and are easily sewn into the lyrics of many old and new Christian songs. I love that whenever I am listening to the radio or at church I can hear a line in a song and pin point where it came from.


The second thing that I have noticed while reading through these chapters is how "simple" these principles are to follow yet how hard we are seem to make them out to be.


What have you found while reading the Sermon on the Mount? If you haven't committed to reading with me, what's stopping you?  Join in and share your thoughts! 

Lessons from the Mount

I met up with my former pastor, John Cook for coffee yesterday morning to chat about this book and this book and everything else in between.  We had a great chat and it was nice to be able to really delve into some things that I have been questioning and struggling with in regards to my spiritual journey.  

We also talked about the Sermon on the Mount and John reminded me of a challenge that my dad issued a few years ago to our church.  He asked everyone to read through Matthew 5, 6, and 7 three times every day for a month.  It seems like such a commitment-  three times a day?  So while we were talking about it I felt like I definitely should take this opportunity to accept the challenge- a few years later but better late than never? 

So over the next month I am going to share my thoughts and things that I have learned from the Sermon on the Mount. I am not sure if I am going to have anything monumental to share but I am committing to doing this and by posting about it on the blog I am making myself accountable! :)  If anyone wants to join me in this daily reading please feel free to! If you'd like to leave a comment with your email address I will be sure to send you a weekly reminder!