The Joyful Announcement of the Gospel of God

Pastor and Professor Darrell W. Johnson sets the scene for the Sermon on the Mount with great description. This could serve as a model for the beginning of a sermon on the S.O.M.

They were sitting in a kind of natural amphitheater, on a sloping hill beside the Sea of Galilee. Some were rough fishermen with their hired hands. Some were shrewd tax-collectors and their cronies. Uptight religious leaders, like the Pharisees and the Sadducees, were there because they were growing increasingly curious and nervous about the new Preacher in…