Sermon On The Mount Episodes
Sand Or Rock? How Can You Be Sure? (SOM 55)
'Build your house on rock not sand', we are told. Building your house, your life, your identity and your faith on the principles that Jesus has been speaking about. Then you will be blessed when the storms come. So, don’t …
I Never Knew You! (SOM 54)
These three verses have been used as hammers to leverage good behavior from Christians for millennia. But is that what Jesus is talking about? At the crux of the three verses is the key question, Who enters the kingdom? Answ...
Bad Fruit ‘R Us? (SOM 53)
Who are the wolves? Who are the bad fruit? I wonder if we have gotten these confused. In the context of Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount, he is speaking about a specific heresy that still flourishes in the …
Is The Golden Rule Still Golden? (SOM 52)
Have you been taught that all you need to do to be a good Christian is to do the golden rule? I bet you have been taught that. Well, how’s it going? Do you get a B- grade or a …
Jesus and Cancel Culture (SOM 51)
Now Jesus has gone too far. Stop judging? I get the concept, but everyone judges. Everyone has been judged. It has ramped up since COVID, but it was happening long before that. Jesus, read the room. Those people on the …
What, Me Worry? (SOM 50)
So just stop being anxious! You are kidding me, right? Did Jesus just tell those hurting anxious people on the hillside to choose to stop being anxious? Is he suggesting that they just need to be reasonable? Wouldn’t that jus...
What’s God’s Real Beef With Money? (SOM 49)
What is Jesus saying? I have a choice either to serve God or Mammon? Am I good? Have I done enough? All Christians spend great deal of time worrying about tithing. We pastors make it even worse by implying guilt …
Young Malcolm's Lord's Prayer: A Gospel Rant Skit (SOM 48)
So how are we to pray--really? Have you ever wondered if God is up in Heaven just yawning as you pray to him? In our Gospel Rant skit podcast, young tween Malcolm had learned the Lord's prayer and he was …
What Prayer Does God Really Want? pt. 3 (SOM 47)
In this Podcast we are in a three part series on the so-called Lord’s prayer. Is Jesus giving Christians a new pillar? Jesus is addressing the accepted three pillars of Judaism, almsgiving, prayer and fasting. Is he saying th...
What Prayer Does God Really Want? pt. 2 (SOM 46)
In this Podcast we are in a three-part series on the so-called Lord’s Prayer. Is Jesus giving Christians a new pillar? Remember, Jesus is addressing the accepted three pillars of Judaism, almsgiving, prayer and fasting. Is he...
What Prayer Does God Really Want? (SOM 45)
Welcome to Gospel Rant. Dr. Bill is continuing on this eye-opening radical journey through the Sermon on the Mount (not a sermon or a mount). It is not a sermon or a lecture, it is a dialogue. Feel free to …
Giving is Not Enough???? (SOM 44)
Welcome to Gospel Rant. Dr. Bill is continuing on this eye-opening radical journey through the Sermon on the Mount (not a sermon or a mount). It is not a sermon or a lecture, it is a dialogue. Feel free to …
Be Perfect! Are You Kidding Me?? (SOM 43)
In this Gospel Rant podcast we are wrestling with one of the strangest, maddening and troubling verses in all the Sermon on the Mount, or anywhere for that matter. How you understand this will tell you how you understand the …
Can The Gospel Do Anything For Addicts?
Carrie Despres, a dear friend and a recovering addict tells her story. She was a leader in my church plant in the Vancouver region in 1995. Does the Gospel have the power to make a difference in the life of …
Don't Resist Being Hurt? Really??? (SOM 42)
Tough passage in the Sermon on the Mount. Historically, it has been the source of a lot of misunderstanding and harm. Is Jesus telling a rape victim to not resist? A black teen who is being treated unjustly that they …