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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Blessed are…
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 […]
Conversation in Faith 