Our blessings are for us to share, not to keep. Abram’s story reminds us that we are blessed to be a blessing. “Bless”, “blessing”, “blessed” have a variety of meanings- all the meanings are related but there are distinctions we need to be mindful of anytime we encounter the idea of blessing. One of the […]
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Bless, blessing, blessed: the definitions
Bless, blessing, blessed. These are such common words in the Bible and in conversation. They are also words than carry big concepts. Concepts that shape how we understand the world and God’s presence in it. So how do we start to get some sort of understanding of what these words mean? One place, of course, […]
Bless, Blessing, Blessed
There are words that Christians use, often without much thought. If we are asked to define them or explain them, we might be caught short. Bless, Blessing, Blessed are a set of words that we use and, I suspect, miss use. It’s not unusual to hear people talk about being blessed and usually they mean […]
