I have heard that if you play a country record backwards, your spouse returns, your dog is resurrected, and your truck starts working again. Now, I know in many ways that life isn’t that way. But there is a grain of truth in the fact that when we apply the wisdom of Jesus, a truth that is in m
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