Feb 28, 2021 – Second Sunday in Lent
Worship Service Message: Comfort & Inheritance
WEEK TWO of LENT: Devotional – Sun, Feb 28: BLESSED
Beatitude texts for week two: 02. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. 03. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Sun, Feb 28: BLESSED The scholars Malina & Rohrbaugh suggest that the blessedness of Beatitudes also refers to honor. It means to ‘bring honor’ or to be ‘filled[…]
Lenten Devotional: Sat, Feb 27: IS
In these Beatitude statements, the ‘to be’ verb is open-ended. It is not past tense. It is not even present-tense. Nor is it conditional. It creates the world by declaring it as accomplished. In fact, as Maxie Dunnan and Kimberly Dunnan Reisman write, “Originally there was no verb in the Beatitudes … ‘are’ … did[…]
Lenten Devotional: Fri, Feb 26: HEAVEN
Matthew uses the Greek word basileía. It contains such a big idea. What is heaven? Is it above us, up in the sky or cosmos? Is it lodged within our minds and hearts? Is it a place or a state of being? We can sum up cultural ideas of heaven as a location or realm[…]
Lent Devotional – Thurs, Feb 25: KINGDOM
In these Beatitudes, the kingdom is a place of belonging. In this sense, it becomes an expansive community. Perhaps it will manifest here on earth as well as in heaven. As Christ tells us, the blessed become part of the kingdom. They have citizenship within it. Or if one thinks of kingdom as family, the[…]