More on The Sermon on the Mount
If you're enjoying our summer series on The Sermon on the Mount--The World's Greatest Talk, you may want to read more. Here are some staff recommendations for further reading:
The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard:
John Ortberg: A modern classic on the Sermon on the Mount and what it means for spiritual transformation. I often find that trying to understand Dallas requires a process something like osmosis--but is he ever worth it! Scott Palmbush: Dallas Willard shares his compelling vision of life in the Kingdom of God in his book The Divine Conspiracy. A significant part of this meaty tome expounds on Matthew 5-7 as interpreted through the "Kingdom" lens.
James Benton: The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard changed the way I thought about the Sermon on the Mount and made me reconsider how I was approaching being a Christian. Dallas Willard is an intense, but terrific writer.
James Benton: The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard changed the way I thought about the Sermon on the Mount and made me reconsider how I was approaching being a Christian. Dallas Willard is an intense, but terrific writer.
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT by Bob Guelich:
John Ortberg: Bob was a great New Testament scholar at Fuller Seminary who passed away several years ago, and wrote a classic work devoted to making modern scholarship on the Sermon on the Mount accessible to folks.
MATTHEW: A COMMENTARY by Dale Bruner:
John Ortberg: Dale Bruner is one of our own (a Presbyterian!), and his commentary on Matthew has had a 'cult following'--in the best sense of the word--for years. It recently got reprinted by Eerdmans.
THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP by Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
John Ortberg: Periodically someone recaptures for their time the glory and weight of Jesus' call. This is still a classic after more than half a century by a great scholar, martyred by Hitler who understood what it meant to be 'persecuted for righteousness' sake.'
STUDIES IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Nicole Laubscher: Lloyd-Jones describes the Sermon on the Mount as "nothing but a great and grand and perfect elaboration of what our Lord called his 'new commandment'. His new commandment was that we love one another even as He has loved us...If we are Christ's...we should love one another even as He loved us, here were are shown how to do it."
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