This sermon represents Week 13 of a series Darrell taught on the Sermon on the Mount in 1995. This message was preached in California shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, at a moment when grief, fear, and outrage were fresh and deeply personal. Turning to Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount—“an eye for an eye”—Darrell invites listeners to wrestle with how followers of Jesus are called to respond when evil feels close and overwhelming. As we release this message at the close of 2025, a year many have experienced as tumultuous, it offers a challenging invitation to refuse to become echoes of violence and instead learn the costly, powerful way of Jesus: overcoming evil with good.