Weekly Meditations – Page 84 – Jackson Community Church

Reflections on beatitudes and blessings (themes from Matthew)

The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing. — Rumi SONGS about BLESSINGS: Be Not Afraid by Bob Dufford (Christian): https://youtu.be/BltudBGj8dg?feature=shared The Blessing by Karl Jobe & Cody Carnes (Christian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp6aygmvzM4 Blessings by Laura Story (Christian): https://youtu.be/XQan9L3yXjc?feature=shared Blessings on Blessings by The Newsboys (Christian):[…]

Reflections on themes of living water and living gardens from Hebrew Scripture, gospel of John and Revelation

The spirit is so near that you can’t see it! But reach for it… don’t be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don’t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him. — Rumi If you want to get a feel for how God[…]

Reflections on faith & fear: walking on water in Gospels of Matthew and Mark

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. ― Desmond Tutu SONGS about FEAR & COURAGE: Fear Is a Liar by Zach Williams (Christian): https://youtu.be/1srs1YoTVzs?si=RYhTcba4zdSguAj3 The Breakup Song by Franccesca Battistelli (pop): https://youtu.be/H0wpP5o7xpI?si=EhnM4_2P9ho9sB0h Scared to[…]

C3: COCKTAILS & CHRISTIAN CONVERSATIONS resumes Fri, July 12 @ 5pm

FOR BACKGROUND STUDY this weekend: Overview of Colossians (video by BibleProject):: https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/colossians/ Overview of Philippians (video by BibleProject): https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/philippians/ Overview of Galatians (video by BibleProject): https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/galatians/ How to Read Letters (Epistles) in New Testament of Bible video (BibleProject): https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/new-testament-letters-literary-context/ Did Paul Actually Say That? reading wisely in New Testament (podcast by BibleProject): https://bibleproject.com/podcast/did-paul-actually-say-that/ Paul’s Missionary[…]

Reflection on Freedom: theme in Paul’s letters to Colossians and Philippians

At the end of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. alludes to the apostle Paul’s words in Galatians 3:28: “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no[…]