Building Our House On Rock: The Sermon on the Mount As Jesus' Vision for Our Lives As Told by Matthew and Luke

by Dennis Hamm

Jesus Sermon on the Mount ends with the parable of the builders on rock or sand. Doing what Jesus asks results in building a life that endures not doing it results in disaster. The choice is ours, and its a scary one. How can we read these words so that we can know what Jesus meant and do it? In this book, Scripture scholar Dennis Hamm takes an in-depth look at the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew and the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke, paying special attention to the distinctive ways these two evangelists present and interpret Jesus teachings. Hamm helps us to hear Jesus words in their original cultural setting as well as in the context of the Old Testament and the Gospels. This book is both informative and pastoral, helping us to realize that the you addressed by Jesus in the Sermon is not a lonely individual but a healed and praying community, and that the one we pray to is not a long-ago and faraway Jesus of Nazareth but our living Lord and Friend. De

258 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2011

About the author

Dennis Hamm, SJ (PhD, St. Louis University), is professor of New Testament and Graff Chair in Catholic Theological Studies at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where he has taught Scripture for over thirty-five years. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.