The world has cherry picked through this, the most challenging sermon Jesus ever preached, and turned it into a candy-coated religion.  This book will help you feel the impact it must have had on the crowd who listened so long ago on that Galilean hillside.  Far from preaching a health and wealth gospel, Jesus tells us that we have to completely empty ourselves, completely trust God for both our physical and spiritual welfare, and be ready to face disapproval and even persecution for doing it.  He explains exactly what God's command to love Him and your neighbor means in terms of cost—everything!  And it castigates those who would try to qualify these commandments in order to soften their demands. 
            The book is laid out in short, easy to read and digest segments.  In fact, it might be a good idea to read one at a time, or perhaps two or three that continue the subject at hand, and do some thinking before going on to the next.  It certainly lends itself to that method.  It could also make an excellent class study with thought questions and discussions, as well as other pertinent scriptures. 
            Invitation to a Spiritual Revolution: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, has been reprinted by DeWard Publishing Company.

Dene Ward