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Blessed Are the Merciful: What It Means to Receive and Extend God’s Mercy
In Matthew 5:7, Jesus declares, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.” This beatitude, like the others in the Sermon on the Mount, describes not how one becomes a citizen of Christ’s kingdom, but what such a citizen looks like. Jesus is painting a...
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness: What it Means to Hunger for God’s Righteousness
Manny grew up in poverty in Lagos, Nigeria, where his family of thirteen survived on less than $2 a day in a two-room cinder block house. Like many poor Nigerian children, he had no shoes—a dangerous reality that exposed him to disease. One day, a white missionary...
Blessed Are the Meek: The Gentle Giants of God’s Kingdom
Our world has a habit of swapping price tags. Like a thief who rearranges values in a jewellery shop, society places the highest price on youth, appearance, wealth, power, and immediate gratification while devaluing the true jewels of inward beauty, righteousness, and...
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: Finding Joy through Godly Sorrow
When Jesus began his public ministry, what did he choose to speak about first? Not spiritual warfare, not the end times, not even finding your spiritual gifts. Instead, he spoke about Christian character. In the Sermon on the Mount, he opened with the beatitudes—a...
Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit: The Happy Humility of God’s Kingdom
Human flourishing. Life fulfilment. The abundant life. A happy existence. What ancient philosophers called the “good life.” This has been humanity’s relentless pursuit since creation itself. Many have attempted to define what such an existence looks like. Some...
The Sermon on the Mount: A Call to Radical Difference
The Sermon on the Mount stands as perhaps the most profound section of Scripture ever delivered. Saint Augustine described it as “the perfect standard for the Christian life,” while Dietrich Bonhoeffer based his classic work The Cost of Discipleship on its exposition....
Life is Tough but Jesus is Tougher: How Christ Enables Us to Respond Better to Suffering
The book of Job presents one of Scripture’s most profound explorations of human suffering. Job maintained his righteousness through unimaginable loss—his children, his possessions, his health, and even the support of his wife and friends. He grieved yet worshipped. He...
Life is Tough but Jesus is Tougher: How Job Responded to Suffering
In our overview of the book of Job, we have explored why he suffered and how he suffered. Now we turn to a crucial question: How did Job respond to his suffering? Consider this statement: “It is because of how I suffered that I am what I am now.” Imagine three...
Life is Tough but Jesus is Tougher: How Job Suffered
Life is tough, but Jesus is tougher. This truth becomes strikingly evident when we examine Job’s sufferings, a man whose trials were so severe that James 5:11 holds them up as an example of patient endurance. While we explored previously why Job suffered, we must now...