The Sermon on the Mount is beautiful. It’s also hard.

On this episode of Being Human, host Steve Cuss welcomes his friend, the pastor and author Rich Villodas. The two discuss Villodas’ new book, The Narrow Path, which focuses on the Matthew text. Villodas and Cuss discuss false needs, the longing for the good life, and what it means that God only dwells in reality.

Resources mentioned during this episode include:

• New Life Fellowship Church
• The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus by Rich Villodas
• Good and Beautiful and Kind: Becoming Whole in a Fractured World by Rich Villodas
• The Narrow Path: How the Subversive Way of Jesus Satisfies Our Soulsby Rich Villodas
• God, Christ and Us by Herbert McCabe
• Faith Within Reason by Herbert McCabe
• The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out by Brennan Manning
• Pete Scazzero

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