Monday, February 10, 2014

Study Resources: Sermon on the Mount

Note: Beginning tomorrow, the Bible faculty at KCU will present a series of sermons from Matthew 5:1-12 entitled "Be."  During the duration of this series, I will offer a follow-up devotional study as a way of keeping the conversation going.  To start, I offer this resource list to guide those of you interested in studying more.

Commentaries
Hans Dieter Betz, The Sermon on the Mount: A Commentary, Hermeneia (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995).

D. A. Carson, The Sermon on the Mount: An Evangelical Exposition of Matthew 5-7 (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1982).

Sinclair B. Ferguson, The Sermon on the Mount (Edinburgh, Scotland: Banner of Truth, 1988).

Robert A. Guelich, Sermon on the Mount: Foundation for Understanding (Waco, TX: Word, 1982).

Scot McKnight, The Sermon on the Mount, The Story of God Bible Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2013).

John R. W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount, The Bible Speaks Today (Downers Grove, IL/Leicester, England: InterVarsity Press, 1985).

Charles Quarles, Sermon on the Mount: Restoring Christ’s Message to the Modern Church, NAC Studies in Bible and Theology (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2011).

Theological/Ethical Studies
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (London: SCM Press, 1959).

R. W. Glenn, Crucifying Morality: The Gospel of the Beatitudes (Wapwallopen, PA: Shepherd Press, 2013).

Bible Studies/Spiritual Growth Studies
Mike Cope, Righteousness Inside-Out: The Heart of the Problem and the Problem of the Heart (Nashville: Gospel Advocate Co., 1988).

Daniel M. Doriani, The Sermon on the Mount: The Character of a Disciple (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2006).

Randy Harris, Living Jesus: Doing What Jesus Says in the Sermon on the Mount (Abilene, TX: Leafwood Publishers, 2012).

James C. Howell, The Beatitudes for Today, For Today Series (Louisville: Westminster/ John Knox Press, 2005).

J. Ellsworth Kalas, Beatitudes from the Back Side: A Different Take On It Means to be Blessed (Nashville: Abingdon, 2008).

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1984).

Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God (New York: HarperCollins, 1998).

Preaching/Teaching Resources
David Buttrick, Speaking Jesus: Homiletic Theology and the Sermon on the Mount (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2002).

Dave Fleer and David Bland, eds., Preaching the Sermon on the Mount: The World It Imagines (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2007).

R. Kent Hughes, The Sermon on the Mount: The Message of the Kingdom, Preaching the Word (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2001).

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