'Beatitudes' Tagged Posts
Blessed Are The Meek
I believe that none of the Beatitudes are less appealing to our culture than the third in which Jesus said, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5). In 1989, Nike produced a print advertisement for their Air Force One shoe line featuring future NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley. The caption on these ads said, “The meek may inherit the earth, but they won’t get the ball.” The underlying message of this advertisement was that…
Fix Your Beatitude
In Matthew 4:23-25, we find Jesus in the infancy of His earthly ministry traveling the area of Galilee, preaching the gospel of the Kingdom, and healing all types of sickness and demon possession. From all of this Jesus starts to amass a large crowd of people following him from city to city. It’s on this particular trek that He finds Himself at the foot of one of the “mountains” on the shore of the sea of Galilee. Matthew 5:1-2 tells…