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How to read Living the Beatitudes Today book and study guide

When He began His Sermon on the Mount, what might Jesus have been thinking? Perhaps, and I’m only guessing, it was something like how He...

The Second Coming

Earlier this year, I did a quick read-through of the New Testament to find the references to Jesus’ Second Coming. Here’s what I found....

Cascades

That's the name I've given to this piece which I hope you'll enjoy - accompanied by some rather insignificant vids of water and birds to...

He knows what’s happening!

Psalm 94 has encouraged me recently. Here’s a précis. The psalmist is concerned about the wicked in the midst of his own people, not in...

Could Habakkuk have something to say about our world today?

What could the words of a prophet from approximately 2600 years ago be saying to us today? Can we draw any parallels? Did he feel the...

On Perfectionism

Many of us struggle with perfectionism. It can be a good thing but also not, depending on the context. When I sit down at home and play...

Books on Cult Mind Control and the Beatitudes

Any group which deliberately and systematically controls or limits freedom of choice may come under the category of a cult, but the real...

The Beatitudes and Psalm 49

I love how Psalm 49 begins. “Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world. Both low and high, rich and poor,...

The Beatitudes are in microcosm the biblical worldview

They speak of: 1. The fall (poverty of spirit) 2. mourning over that fallenness; but also comfort from God through salvation—as God...

Each beatitude links with the other beatitudes

Each beatitude links with the other beatitudes and each protects the others from being wrongly interpreted. For example, if righteousness...

The Beatitudes and Character

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones said of the Beatitudes “All Christians are to be like this” and “All Christians are meant to manifest all of these...

The Beatitudes - eight opening statements of Jesus’s first recorded sermon, the Sermon on the Mount

The Beatitudes link the teachings of the Old Testament to those of the New Testament, down to the last page of the Bible. The way Jesus...

What does a healthy spiritual life look like? The answer is found in the Beatitudes.

The first thing to know about the Beatitudes is that they are not skills to be learned but qualities of character - to be received - and...