The Sermon on the Mount

What a different spin reading The Message puts on this passage. I've always been able to read the Sermon on the Mount fairly impersonally, but with The Message, I couldn't do that. It really hit me between the eyes. The commands and comments were so personal, so modern, so immediate. Jesus preaches such humility, such selflessness, such other-awareness. That's so different from our culture where we are encouraged to be the center of everything.