Telling the truth can come at great cost to our ability to appear to others as we’d like them to imagine us. However, Jesus calls us to be people who are not only loving, but also honest.
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Lust is a sin that enters through our eyes but damages our heart and entices action with our hands. Jesus desires for our souls to be kept pure, even if it means going to great lengths to make that happen.
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Pastor Danny encourages us to be proactive in our love for one another rather than reactive in anger. He continues the Portrait Series from Matthew 5:21-26
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Guest speaker, Mac Gervais continues our Portrait series by encouraging us to look to Jesus to find goodness. When we look to him, he will show us all we need to live faithfully.
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Two of the most unique characteristics of a follower of Jesus are their ability to bring preservation, and light to the world around them. Jesus’ words here give us the confidence we need to know we are living with a Higher Purpose.
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Merciful, pure, and peacemaking are who we are in Christ. We move from the beatitudes of need into the beatitudes of action by way of our hunger for righteousness.
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The meek will inherit the earth because God has designed his kingdom to come through his ways and not man’s. The meek are selfless with their strength and come to possess what God has planned for them by asserting themselves for the good of others. This emptying of oneself produces a hunger and thirsting after God, who will always satisfy like nothing else can.
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Mourning is a healthy practice for followers of God. Through this we learn that, although our sin grieves God and has real consequences, he is One who always comforts those who seek him through mourning.
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The only citizens of the kingdom of heaven are those who have emptied themselves so as to be filled with the Holy Spirit. To be poor in spirit doesn’t mean to think less of yourself but think of yourself less.
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The Sermon on the Mount isn’t a new moral code or a behavioral guide for Christians. It is a description of your new identity in Christ, this is who you are as a new creation. Our response is to turn and face the portrait of a disciple and let it reshape who we are.
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