In the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus directly addresses people who are poor, hungry, weeping, hated and excluded because of their association with Christ, saying to them that they are blessed.

People on the ground. Weary, dirty, curious flesh—provocatively close. This is the context for the Sermon on the Plain. The 12 disciples swell into many, and they hear about their past, present, and ...

when it came to the sermon they were preoccupied in the 19th century with the ideal of "plain" preaching. (The Tractarian father John Keble, as a kind of spiritual discipline for cultivating the ...

The sermon was one of the best that has been heard in Appleton Chapel for a long time, and had a powerful and stirring effect upon its auditors. He said: The figure of speech is plain and pungent.

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You have your sermon text or topic. Sunday morning is approaching fast. How can you grow this seed of an idea into a healthy sermon? Here are the steps I go through every week. Read the text out loud.

Most of Jesus’ teaching in Luke’s Sermon on the Plain mirrors Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, but there are differences. The biggest is that instead of eight beatitudes, like the Sermon on ...