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Pastor Chuck starts a new sermon series about the “Sermon on the Mount”. He describes how Jesus uses “The Beatitudes” help to us redefine what God wants us to admire in the world. Pastor Chuck provides a unique concept for us to use the Beatitudes as “not the attitudes we should have, but the attitudes we should be.” This week, Pastor Chuck’s topic is “Blessed are the Poor in Spirit.” Pastor Chuck describes how being “blessed” is a continuous spiritual condition of spiritual prosperity (being rich in spirit), contentment, and satisfaction in your life, not a physical feeling or state of physical material possession. Pastor Chuck will explain “one who is ‘poor in spirit’ has humbly recognized they have a deep need for God because they know they lack His Holiness and have a need for His forgiveness, grace, and mercy, and need Him as a Savior.” Pastor Chuck encourages us to become more aware of our desperate everyday need for God and to invite Him into our lives more every day.

By Pastor Glenn Pease The tallest Methodist church in the world stands in the loop of Chicago. Skyscrapers of offices are around it, but stretching still steeper into the sky is the slender steeple symbolic of man's aspiration to reach God. Sometime ago bells were installed in this steeple in order to…

The Beatitude of Giving and Receiving Grace Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Matthew 5:7 Note with each beatitude, that the qualification for happiness progresses to a new level of spiritual maturity. The first begins with salvation and works through the desire to grow up spiritually…

Part II: The Beatitudes This section of the Sermon on the Mount is called the Beatitudes. The word ‘beatitude’ comes from the Latin “beat”, which means blessing. This isn’t pronounced beat, as in beatnik; the ‘a’ should have a short ‘u’ sound. Interestingly enough, the term, “beatnik” was coined by an…

Part 1: Introduction: This sermon can be broken down into three general parts: The Beatitudes and the results of inner happiness, advanced seminary training for the disciples and our Lord’s clarification of the Mosaic Law. Remember that this is subject to change as I continue to study this passage. At…

TEXT Matthew 5:1-16 SERIES Matthew TITLE The World Puts its Stock in Us If you’re happy and don’t know it say Amen! Exegetical Idea Homiletical Idea Want them to Know? Want them to do? BIG IDEA When you live the good life you serve as a preservative to keep the world from spoiling and as a guiding light…

As I begin our message for today, I find it necessary first to say a little bit about the title. It might give you the impression that this will be my last sermon on the book of Revelation. If so, you should disabuse yourself of that notion. When I began this series, I purposely avoided preaching from…