by J Douglas Bottorff | May 19, 2011 | Sermon on the Mount
[click for audio] Think not that I have come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to fulfill. “When you really are no longer spiritually a minor, you will cease to need some of the outer observances that formally seemed indispensable;...
by J Douglas Bottorff | May 12, 2011 | Sermon on the Mount
(click for audio) No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lamp stand, and it gives light to all in the house (Matthew 5:15). “If you truly live your life, then it does not in the least matter you’re your present circumstances may be,...
by J Douglas Bottorff | May 5, 2011 | Sermon on the Mount, Uncategorized
(click here for audio) Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. We have to understand that the source of all …persecution is none other than our own selves. When we find righteousness or right thinking very...
by J Douglas Bottorff | Apr 12, 2011 | Sermon on the Mount, The Spiritual Experience
(click for audio) Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be called the children of God. The peace makers spoken of in this Beatitude are those who make or bring about this true peace, or serenity, in their own souls, for it is they who surmount limitation and...
by J Douglas Bottorff | Apr 5, 2011 | Sermon on the Mount
(click here for audio) Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. “To ‘see’ in the sense referred to here, signifies spiritual perception, and spiritual perception means just that capacity to apprehend the true nature of Being which we all so sadly lack....
by J Douglas Bottorff | Mar 28, 2011 | Sermon on the Mount
(click here for audio) Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. “The vital bearing of the principle covered in this Beatitude lies in its application to the realm of thought. The thing that really matters is that you be merciful in your thought. Kind...
