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Jesus was always up-front about the consequences of following him. He makes it clear that as a Christ-follower, the world will not like you or understand the way you live. Furthermore, you can expect to be persecuted for your faith, for your beliefs, for your righteousness. The... Read More →

Unresolved conflict is toxic. It disrupts our worship. We can’t be in close fellowship with God and be out of fellowship with others at the same time. Unresolved conflict also affects our prayer life. In 1 Peter 3:7 husbands are told to treat their wives as they should so that... Read More →

How important is it to be pure in heart? In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, he says that the pure in heart will see God! But what does it mean to be pure in heart? In the Greek language, this carries the connotation of unmixed motives, a person of integrity. A person whose words,... Read More →

Mercy is love in action. It’s more than feeling sorry for someone; it’s getting involved—doing something. We encounter strange people in life. They are strange because they are different from us, but remember they are thinking the same thing, so who’s the strange one? Showing... Read More →

About 9 million people worldwide die of hunger and hunger related diseases every year. This includes a little over 3 million children. In America, outright starvaton is so rare it’s hard to document it happening at all. That’s not to say that no one is hungry in America because a... Read More →

Laura Story shares from her personal experience. Things often don’t go as we plan or as we want. Learning to walk in God’s plans instead of our own is essential if we are going to have peace and grow in our faith. You may be broken, but you can have a better broken.... Read More →

When Jesus gives his famous Sermon on the Mount he begins with the Beatitudes, which means supreme blessedness. While most of the blessings seem straightforward one of the more confusing ones is found in Matthew 5:5. Jesus says, “Blessed are the meek.” When people... Read More →

In Matthew chapter 5, we find the beginning of one of the most often read and best known passages in the Bible known as the Sermon on the Mount. If you have ever been to the location where they believe Jesus delivered this sermon, you would probably refer to it as the sermon on... Read More →

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells us how to be blessed. He describes the attitudes that define the blessed life. We often equate our blessings with our happiness, and our happiness with external circumstances. Jesus makes it clear that a blessed life isn’t dependent on... Read More →