The Beatitudes contain some of Jesus’ best known teaching. And they may also be some of the more confusing. How are the poor in spirit blessed? Or those who mourn? Or those who are persecuted? Matthew’s version of the beatitudes, compared to Luke’s, is sometimes presented as spiritualizing Luke’s more down to earth words. People […]
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It Is Time To Follow Jesus.
Matthew’s story of Jesus calling the first disciples to follow him is often portrayed as a particular kind of miracle. The portrayal goes something like this: Jesus walks up as an unknown person to some random commercial fishers, and says “Follow me”. The fishers don’t ask questions, they just leave everything behind in response to […]
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