Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Commentators connect this week’s blessings with the earlier Beatitude passage about peacemakers. All the blessings are integrated. One scholar writes, ‘Here again there is a profound significance in the order. The work of the peacemakers is not a light and easy work.’ When believing in, and working for, a righteous or just cause, a person[…]
Full Service Message: What We Believe In
This week’s texts: Matthew 5:10-12 (NRSV) 10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.11 “Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely[b] on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the[…]
SAT, Mar 20 Community Event: 35th ANNUAL FIRST SEASON AUCTION KICKOFF (Tin Mountain)7pm • Zoom & LivePlans for this year’s virtual event are underway and include a LIVE kick-off evening as well as an online auction similar to last year. The live portion is scheduled for March 20. The online auction will open that night and[…]
All along, we’ve meditated on the idea that these blessings are given to all of us. That in this ‘upside down’ version of the Kingdom of God, people who might not have been recognized as being valuable, became significant in the sight of Christ and the eyes of God. It’s as true today as it[…]
