The Kingdom Made Plain
A teaching commentary on the Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain.
Purpose of This Study
This is a study and a commentary built into one. Across thirty-three sessions it walks two of the most familiar and least obeyed passages in all of Scripture — the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7) and the Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6:17–49) — unit by unit, doing the careful exegetical and theological work of a commentary while remaining a usable teaching guide for a learning community. Each session stands on its own as a strong teaching unit of roughly three to four thousand words, and the sessions together form a continuous reading that may, in time, be edited into a book.
The foundation throughout is a Kingdom of God theology: the conviction that Jesus came announcing the reign of God breaking in here and now, and that the gospel frees us not simply from sin but for others. These sermons are not impossible ideals or private spiritualities. They are the constitution of a people learning to live as if God reigns — because, in Christ, God does.