Experience the Beatitudes in Daily Refresh What are the Beatitudes? “Blessed are those who…” Matthew 5:4 In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, He declares many different blessings, also known as beatitudes, and reframes what the Kingdom of Heaven will look like. But what do those blessings mean for us? This week, experience the Beatitudes in a whole new way…
Messin’ With Your Heroes Therefore be imitators of God—Ephesians 5:1 Really? Is it so wrong for us to emulate the life of another man or woman? Is it so wrong to hold another person up, as a role model? Well, the answer is (as it often is) . . . it depends. It depends on…
So you want to pray … now what? “I want to pray, but I don’t have time.” With our busy lives and schedules, it can be hard to make time to pray or even know where to start. When you feel overwhelmed, remember this: prayer is simply an honest conversation between you and God. Here are 3…
I have a serious concern to bring up with you, my friends, using the authority of Jesus, our Master. I’ll put it as urgently as I can: You must get along with each other. You must learn to be considerate of one another, cultivating a life in common. 1 Corinthians 1:10 MSG
With Friends Like These . . . My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ—James 2:1 We men tend toward partiality. Sometimes with forethought, many times with no thought, we give or withhold based upon characteristics of the potential recipients. We can, therefore, find ourselves directing all our…