We've been in a series on the beatitudes for some time now and have come to the last section today. We've been looking at the different 'blessing' statements of Jesus; His teachings that turned the concept of 'being blessed' a bit upside down. In the passage we're going to examine today, you might notice that Jesus changes...
I've said it before; I believe the days of 'comfortable Christianity' are quickly coming to a close in our country. Following Jesus has always come with a price, but in our modern nation - living as a Christian has had very little risk. And as such, many have been lulled into a false sense of security thinking that life has ...
Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, (2) and he began to teach them, saying: (3) "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (4) Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. (5) Blessed are the meek, for they...
In Johannesburg, South Africa, a young geometallurgist, Steve Chingwaru, has uncovered a $24 billion gold resource – 420 tons – buried in mining waste. The massive discovery came from research for his master's thesis. "They were already extracting the gold from these tailings," he explains, "But all the processors in South Africa are...
Most people have an innate sense of justice. Have you ever been in a movie theater and the bad guy of the film finally gets what's coming to him and the crowd just erupts with applause...? People like to see justice.
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On November 25th, 1998, a man named Les Stewart reached his goal of typing all of the numbers from one to one million - in words, not numbers. It took seven manual typewriters, 1,000 ribbons of ink, 19,890 pages, over the course of 16 years and seven months. Mr. Stewart said his secret was to type for...
Think about any of the popular blockbuster movie franchises - 'The Fast and The Furious', 'The MCU and The Avengers', 'John Wick', etc. Most of them don't really feature a lead character who could accurately be described as 'meek'. Meek people typically aren't action heroes. Meek people don't usually have crowds cheering for them. Becoming a 'meek...
I stopped over at Troy Nelson's place one evening a couple weeks back. We were talking about me and Benji flying out to Cincinnati again and how we're looking at two more years of treatments down there. I joked that after much more of this I'd have to visit his PTSD support group! I was joking - but he said, ...
