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326. Secret Savior

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

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Lori Wagner

... metaphor applies to the rooms of the heart.** Prayer is a secret place in your heart where only you and God can meet. No other distractions. No other people. Just you and God. *See www.hebrew4christians.com for information on The Beatitudes in Hebrew. And see Strongs for the word “crypto” in secret, inwardly, inward nature, hidden. The inward Jew is not just for show. See also the jewishencyclopedia for further information on Jewish prayers. **See www.yashanet.com/studies/matstudy/mat3b.htm regarding ...

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

328. Blessed Is the Preacher

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E. Eugene Williams

The longest sermon on record was preached by Clinton Lacy of West Richland, Washington in February of 1955. It took 48 hours and 18 minutes to deliver it. Small wonder someone proposed the adoption of a new Beatitude: "Blessed is the preacher whose train of thought has a caboose."

329. Words Are Not Enough

Matthew 21:23-32

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Roy Howard

... concerned that the gift of salvation we have been given issues forth in lives reflecting the way of the giver. There can be no separation of grace from ethics. The clearest example of this is the Sermon on the Mount that began with the Beatitudes followed by a description for practical living after the manner of Jesus. The scariest example may be the parable of the sheep and goats, where those who failed to recognize Jesus in the broken, battered, hungry, thirsty, and downtrodden and act with mercy, would ...

330. Blessed to Be Among the Company of Mourners

Matthew 5:1-12

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Albert G. Butzer III

... cloud of witnesses — family, friends, and strangers — whose lives we remember and whose deaths we continue to grieve because we also belong to the company of mourners. The other thing that the doctor’s email did was to remind me of the truth of Jesus’ beatitude, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” In the midst of my grief, the doctor’s email was a great source of comfort to me as in his own compassionate way he ministered to the minister. Talk about the priesthood of all ...

331. Are You Ready to Wait?

Matthew 25:1-13

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Albert G. Butzer III

... Matthew 5:15). So how do we do that? We do it by following the teachings that Jesus laid out earlier in the gospel story, especially those from the Sermon on the Mount. For example, we do it by embracing the future that Jesus imagines in his beatitudes: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God… and so ...

332. Out of the Saltshaker

Mark 9:38-50

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King Duncan

... are the salt of the earth,” he said. “But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” In Matthew’s Gospel, these words follow the Beatitudes and are often interpreted as referring to Jesus’ expectations of his disciples. Mark uses the same imagery in today’s lesson from Mark 9:50: “Salt is good,” he said, “but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again?” Bible scholar ...

333. Pulling Our Punches

Mark 10:17-31

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Frank Ramirez

... a-changin’.” In the gospels it is clear that Jesus was turning the world upside down, and those who are the least, the lost, and the last will be first in the kingdom of God. In the gospels of Matthew and Luke this becomes clear in the Beatitudes: the meek will inherit the earth. The poor, and the poor in spirit, are the most blessed. Mark’s is the shortest of the four gospels. This is the longest of the discourses in the shortest gospel and it is on economics and material possessions. It couldn’t ...

334. Righteous, Dude!

Matthew 5:13-20

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John Jamison

... sea, there was a group of Pharisees and Sadducees who had been sent up from Jerusalem to check this Jesus out and determine if he was going to become a problem. So far, they had taken a lot of notes. Jesus started off with those lines we call the Beatitudes, eight things that Jesus said people needed to do if they were going to be one of his followers. In short, they all simply said that if you want to follow Jesus and be true to God, you needed to do everything exactly opposite of what the Pharisees and ...

335. The Power of One Passion and One Prayer

Acts 1:6-14

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... your life? If so, then God will do in and through you more than you could ever dream of accomplishing on your own. 1. Rev. Harry B. Parrott, Jr., 2812 Eighth Street, N., St. Petersburg, FL 33704, American Baptist Church of the Beatitudes. 2. “Why 15 Masterpieces Were Abandoned Before They Were Finished,” May 13, 2019, https://www.invaluable.com/blog/unfinished-masterpieces/. 3. “The curious staying power of the cliffhanger.” The New Yorker, 28 November 2017. Archived from the original on 1 December ...

336. Come and Rest

Matthew 5:3-10 · Matthew 11:28-30

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George Reed

... and welcome us into a time of rest. He takes our heavy burden and offers one that is light as we yoke ourselves up with him. When we walk together with Jesus in God’s realm, we find our burdens are light and our days and nights are restful. The Beatitudes, those ‘blessed are they’ sayings that open what we call the Sermon on the Mount, are a snapshot of what it means to walk with Jesus. In God’s realm things are different from this world. The advice is not to do unto others before they have a chance ...

337. God Is Like...a Comforter

2 Corinthians 1:3-7

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Kenneth L. Gibble

... Acts, the early church is described as “living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit” so that its numbers increased (Acts 9:31). Finally, we recall the words of Jesus in that list of blessings we call the Beatitudes. “Blessed are those who mourn,” said our Lord, “for they will be comforted” (Matthew 5:4). To think of God as comforter is to expand our understanding beyond the image of a thick bed covering. There are many ways of providing comfort besides providing warmth ...

338. Do I Dare Be Different?

Matthew 5:10; 10:1-42

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Wallace H. Kirby

William Inge was one of England’s most outstanding preachers. At the beginning of this century, because of his insight and forthrightness, he was either greatly admired or bitterly disliked. After the First World War he was speaking at a public gathering, and in his speech, he urged that realism instead of revenge be his country’s guide in its treatment of a defeated Germany. Three days later, Dr. Inge received a letter which rebuked him for what he had said, and then added: "I have been praying for your ...

339. God Means Everything

Matthew 5:3

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Mickey Anders

William Barclay says the verse "blessed are the poor in spirit" means, "Blessed is the man who has realized his own utter helplessness, and who has put his whole trust in God. If a man has realized his own utter helplessness, and has put his whole trust in God, there will enter into his life two things. He will become completely detached from things, for he will know that things have not got it in them to bring happiness or security; and he will become completely attached to God, for he will know that God ...

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