To fully deliver us, God had to come incarnate as a human, thus taking on our temptations, our weakness, our brokenness, our flesh and blood, our humanity. By suffering and…
God sent prophets who foretold of an anointed one, the Messiah in Hebrew or the Christ in Greek. These promises were fulfilled in Jesus when God came, incarnate, the creator…
Recognize the ascending steps of the beatitudes, each one building on the previous. The culmination is persecution. Darkness cannot stand the light. By our very existence, we shine an uncomfortable…
In the Lord’s prayer, found later in this same Sermon on the Mount where we find the beatitudes, Jesus ties God’s forgiveness of our sins with our own forgiveness of…
The place of grief to call us to God, to recognize our dependence on him, and to allow us to empathize with those who grieve as well as a God…