Counter-intuitive Blessings

Part of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount includes a passage called The Beatitudes which means “supreme blessedness.” It is basically Jesus’ recipe for how to be blessed. Yet the items listed are the opposite of what most of us would describe as blessings. Did Jesus make a mistake? Was He being sarcastic? How could persecution and mourning be blessings?

Opportunity in Crisis: The Hidden Blessing

When crisis strikes, fear seems to be the only option. Bunker down, hole up and weather the storm. We run to either the fight or flight response, but is there a 3^rd option? Is crisis something bad to either fight or hide from? Can good ever come from something so bad and out of our control?

Have You Missed The Promised Land?

In the book of Exodus, the Israelites are freed from Egypt and set out across the desert to the land Egypt and the wilderness, they focused on the humanly impossible situation before them. As a result, they had to wander another 40 years in the wilderness until everyone of that generation of fear had passed away. They missed the Promised Land because they were not willing to trust God and go through the difficulty required to obtain it. God had promised to them, a good, productive land. When they arrived, there were giants inhabiting the land already that the Israelites would have to drive out. Instead of remembering all the mighty wonders God had performed in

How often do we do that? How often do we miss some blessing because we are not willing to go through the work to get it?