What 2020 Needs: The Beatitudes Project
Our objective is to see what life could look like if we live through The Beatitudes’ lens.
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Our objective is to see what life could look like if we live through The Beatitudes’ lens.
We follow more than words on a page: we follow a Person who stays at our side.
The coming of Christ was right through families of messed-up monarchs and battling brothers, through affairs and adultery and more than a feud or two, through skeletons in closets and cheaters at tables.
Her words took me back to a time of deep-seeded insecurity: a time when all I cared about was how I looked and how others perceived me.
If we are most what our hearts love most, how do we make Jesus what we love most about Christmas?
Like everything in our lives, tech both helps and hurts us. So how can we appreciate the help but avoid the hurt?
Bending low in humility can erase dividing lines of hostility.
But over time I have become convinced that God had a script for me to follow. His script is simply to love Him completely, love my neighbors faithfully, and navigate life in light of these two commands.
Sometimes rejection becomes an infection that sickens and weakens a life.
Be patient with yourself, be patient with others, and most importantly, be patient with God.
We do not have to be afraid of feeling afraid.
If the God who made the galaxies lives inside you, then you have the power—through Christ—to denounce every destructive agreement that raises itself up against the truth of God.
When I feel overwhelmed, challenged, knee deep in a difficult season, I cling to the things I know to be true.
What I’ve discovered, is that there is a mystery, an unexplainable beauty and a linear story that accompanies our creative gifts when we (with open hands) offer them back to God.