Trent J. Boone
How Do Jesus’ Beatitudes Echo Psalm 37? The meek will inherit... PLUSUpgrade to the BEST DEAL on Bible Gateway Plus. Save 20% FOR LIFE and access $3,100 worth of premium resources on the go! Upgrade toBible Gateway...
The place is uncertain but many believe Jesus delivered theSermon on the Mount/Plainat ‘Mount Nahum’ or ‘the Mount of Beatitudes’. Some believe that Matthew and Luke relay this sermon in a long and a short version. Refer to Matthew chapters 5 through 7 which represent the long version ...
thirst He is talking about (Matthew 25:35); but it could also mean that they have a hunger for God’s Word and a thirst for His righteousness, which Jesus spoke about in the Beatitudes where He says those who hunger and thirst for righteousness will someday be satisfied (Matthew 5:6)...
The actions that Isaiah outlines are a foreshadowing of the Beatitudes and the actions Jesus asks of us, in Matthew 25, toward “the least of our brethren.” The promise, in Isaiah, is that with this right kind of fasting, “your light shall break forth like the dawn….” And the ...
PHILLIPS Provides a look at the fascinating world of Old Testament men and women whose vision of a sure hope beyond their struggles led them to acts Hero of Heroes: Seeing Christ in the Beatitudes IAIN M. DUGUID In this fresh look at the Beatitudes, Duguid shows how Jesus turns our ...
“God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.” Eccl. 7:29 “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and ...
I’m opening this post with the end of the Beatitudes. No, this isn’t a part of a series. No, you haven’t missed the ones before this. It’s just something that has been on my brain back burner for a bit and I figured I’d share some thoughts about it. Opening up the thoug...
and good work. His complete trust in God’s merciful and gracious love helped him to live the life he lived–to endure the things he endured–and so his words ring true. I find his words in the Beatitudes especially reassuring, giving us a sense of God’s peace for the challenges and...
This happiness/blessedness is presented in all nine beatitudes, from the fifth chapter of Matthew in The Bible (in the New Testament). Jesus Christ was speaking to his twelve apostles, hundreds of disciples and a crowd listening the best they could. Jesus did not say that the first seven ...