Search results for: “beatitudes”
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Blessed are those who may enter by the gates
Doxology – Blessed are YOU, LORD God! Beatitude, we think; ‘Blessed are you when..’ and Jesus personally embraces the crowds in His sermon on the mount. Doxology, however, is when we bless God. Praise God from whom all blessing flow. In Christ Jesus doxology becomes the sweet water of God’s love flowing towards us from…
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James – Come now, brothers – 8
Our church receives a pastoral letter from James by messenger. We know James and trust his wisdom and leadership. He addresses us familially as brothers, opening with encouragement, ‘count it all joy when you experience trials.’ Come now, brothers, James urges, be wise, repent and do what the Lord wills. Unlike the church nearer the…
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Your Mistake – You don’t know the Scriptures
Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God. Matthew 22:29 NLT כְּתָב – a writing, document, edict Scriptures, the written word of God First, let’s understand scripture. It’s written down, recorded, a message of importance with authority; but scripture is much more than that. a…
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Fully Trained – 7
My son died… my only son. He was still in the womb when we first heard Jesus teach in the hills of Galilee. The gospel of Luke carefully records truth from eyewitness accounts of numerous historical citizens of the first century. The following is a fictional representation continued from our previous episodes of eyewitness by…
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Blessings and Woes – 2
“Blessed are you who are poor… “Blessed are you who are hungry now… “Blessed are you who weep now… 22 “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! “But woe to you who are rich… “Woe…
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Blessings and Woes – 1
If I am wicked, woe to me; Even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; See my misery! Job 10:15 NKJV Jesus taught the crowds blessings. (We all like that.) Yet Jesus also warned of the flip-side of the coin – the curse or the woe of…
