Luke 6:17-26 – Drew Downs

Blessed by default

•

8 min read

The damning truth of it is that so many Christians reject Jesus’s approach to blessing. It’s not a competition, but a co-op.

•

5 min read

When talking about God’s blessing, we are necessarily confronted with the idea that we always seem to start talking about possessions.

•

2 min read

In the sermon on the plain, Jesus outlines a relationship to the Kin-dom that is based, not on virtue, but on our relationship to others.

•

2 min read

How many of us conceive of blessing is predicated on an ancient prejudice. That we are good and deserving and others aren’t.

•

7 min read

In the blessings and woes, Jesus challenges us to see things in a different way: to write a different ending to the story.

•

3 min read

In the sermon on the plain, Jesus offers a teaching that feels opposite to our expectations – to see what we’re missing.