Category: The Life of Jesus
The Life of Jesus series on The Footlight walks through Gospel teaching for listeners who want Jesus’ words and works in focus. Use the episode list in order, including later studies such as the Beatitudes and related Sermon on the Mount material as published. Read or listen on each episode page, and pair with Foundations if you also have apologetics questions. New here? See the believer track on Start here.
Start with the earliest Life of Jesus episode on the list (intro), then continue in order. Subscribe on the Podcast page.
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72 – The model prayer – Matthew 6:9-18
Jesus teaches us how to pray: “This, then, is how you should pray: Pray Daily: Set aside specific times each day to pray....
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71 – Religion won’t save you
In the last part of Chapter 5 Jesus is expanding on what the religious leaders of the day considered to be righteous behavior....
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70 – Faith and mercy – Matthew 5:33-48
Following the beatitudes Jesus then spends some time adding some other concepts around Christian living as well as expanding on...
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69 – Justice
69 – Matthew 5:21-32 In our last study we began to visit the parts of Matthew immediately after the Beatitudes exploring what Jesus meant...
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68 – Salt, light and the law
We’ve spent several weeks on the Beatitudes. Now we begin a section where Jesus begins to expand on the concepts presented in the...
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67 – Persecution
Chapter 5 of the gospel of Matthew opens with what has been most frequently called “the sermon...
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66 – Peace
Chapter 5 of the gospel of Matthew opens with what has been most frequently called “the sermon on the Mount”. This consists of a...
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65 – 100% pure
Chapter 5 of the gospel of Matthew opens with what has been most frequently called “the sermon on the Mount”. This consists of a...
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64 – Putting others first
Chapter 5 of the gospel of Matthew opens with what has been most frequently called “the sermon on the Mount”. This consists of a...
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63 – Blessed are …
Introduction This chapter begins the sermon on the Mount as it is called by some. There is a similar sermon in Luke....
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62 – Passing the test
In Chapter 4 we will see: Jesus Tempted by Satan Beginning of His Galilean Ministry Four Fishermen Called as...
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61 – Announcing the king
Matthew Chapter 3 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, The wilderness of Judea would...