What does it mean to be a peacemaker in your everyday life as a Christian? What characteristics might you need to develop as an individual? What actions should you take or avoid? Here’s how God made peace between himself and us, as described by Paul:For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in …
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Last week we considered what Jesus meant by the word “merciful”: both a willingness to forgive wrongs done to us and to show kindness to those in need. We also concluded that Jesus was not referring to people who forgive or show kindness on a handful of one-off occasions, but rather to people whose attitude …
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Let’s move on to the fifth pronouncement of good news which Jesus made to his early followers. We see a shift in focus from the first four of Jesus’ statements in this passage. Leon Morris in the Pillar NT Commentary explains it thus: The first four beatitudes express in one way or another our dependence …
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Nihilist to Christian