"As I look back on my childhood I have difficulty remembering very much of substance. Many of the stories I tell about my childhood are re-telling my mother or brother’s memories. When I think about it, most of what I know today was learned as a child and as a young adult. I was taught, by God’s sweet providence, much of the Sermon on the Mount as a small child. It has been written on my mind for many, many years. But just like any other good teaching that I learned as a child it took my heart many more years to catch up to my mind. The implicit rules and explicit commands of the Sermon on the Mount were obeyed and disobeyed by me over the years and not until fairly recently in my story has my heart begun to catch up to these actions. This is so backwards! Because this world and my heart are so fallen in sin, these good deeds are not the overflow from a willing, contrite, and complete heart. My heart is not yet whole and it daily lags behind my mind. And this convicting and powerful Sermon on the Mount serves to bring my stubborn heart back on the road."

—Chris Borah