When Jesus is the foundation of our lives and when we lay the bricks of these foundational attitudes–the Beatitudes–we are promised blessedness. Jesus provides answers to conditions in our lives that we so often can’t figure out. Why does it seem that happiness and fulfillment are so har

How can a person who is mourning be happy or fulfilled? How can they feel blessed? Jesus said in verse 4, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. “Here is the key: when we have seen the depth of the world’s suffering, when we can see the depth of our own sin, and

Let’s take a step deeper and look at what it means to be “poor in spirit”. As we have already seen, being “poor in spirit” is recognizing our total dependence on God–acknowledging that without Him we are nothing. It is not a weakness in the sense of weak and pitif

As we continue our journey through the Beatitudes which are the very beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, I would ask that you open your heart to their deep wisdom and open your mind to what often seems common sense…..yet often is not practiced because worldly wisdom would tell us it’s

The Beatitudes have been called the Preamble to the Christian Constitution. In the greatest discourse that Jesus delivered, the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus starts with “attitudes”, the attitudes of our heart. Was this by chance? I believe that this was very intentional because the basis f

The attitudes expressed in the Beatitudes provide a foundation for a fulfilling life. If you think about it, as parents, what do we want our kids to really get and get right? We want them to have the right attitude in all the things that they do and how they interact with their world and people. Goo