As Christians, indeed, as followers of Jesus Christ, we have a few choices as we face ANY sin in our life: We can bury our sin, hide it and become self-righteous, or we can give in to the sin and simply accept it in our life. We give up on the battle and we basically create a chasm between us and Go
Life is NOT about the QUANTITY of things we do, the “exploits” we have, and the pleasures we keep pursuing. It IS about the “QUALITY” of our daily walk in life and our daily walk with God. And this, I believe, is so much what the Beatitudes are all about. You’ll notice that
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
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