Beatitudes – Drew Downs

For Love, For God — for Epiphany 4A

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3 min read

Jesus opens the sermon on the mount with an evocative recasting of the nature of humanity’s relationship to God, and ultimately, to one another.

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The first challenge in Jesus’s vision of blessing is it counters the common one. The second is that the powerful like things the way they are.

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5 min read

Many want to paint war as virtuous, distorting the mercy of God as weak. These would steal your soul and have you thank them.

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6 min read

In both gospels for this week, we are invited to see things differently—about our world, the people around us, and how it all works.

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9 min read

The Beatitudes challenge us to see the love in vulnerability, hope in fear, and in the blessing of justice.

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2 min read

This famous list of blessings is both beloved and often ignored. Because it is challenging to our status quo.