Attitudes - Matthew 5:1-12 - Easter 6 - 5-5-24

 

Sermon podcast from the Sunday 5-5-24 worship service - Peace Memorial Church, UCC in Palos Park, IL. Matthew 5:1-12. 

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Beautiful - Matthew 5:1-12 - 2-2-20

Sermon podcast from February 2, 2020 at St. Paul's UCC in Downers Grove. Matthew 5:1-12. The Beatitudes.

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"Beautiful" podcast

The Blessings of God's Reign

Sermon podcast from yesterday at St. Paul's UCC in Downers Grove.  Part of our Season of Visioning. Matthew 5:1-12
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Beautiful

Beatitudes sermon podcast from this morning at St. Paul's UCC in Downers Grove, IL. Includes the opening sentences (Leviticus 19:33-34) from the worship service as well as the benediction (Irish Blessing)
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Blessed

This week's exactly-titled Bible reflection (Blessed) begins and ends this morning's sermon at St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Downers Grove, IL
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Blessed

If we could only really live the Beatitudes.

• A knowledge its not all about us
• Comfort
• Meekness
• Seeking to do what is right
• Mercy
• Purity
• Peacemaking
• A willingness to live out justice and love regardless.

Blessed

This week's Bible study post (The way it isn't) is almost completely absent from Sunday's sermon at Union Congregational UCC in Somonauk, IL.  If you look closely you can find just a few remnants, but I went in a different direction for the sermon.
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"Blessed" podcast

The way it isn’t.

Here's this week's Bible reflection:

I think that we look at Jesus’ teaching in the Beatitudes and think, “That’s very nice.”  Then we live as if this is what Jesus said:

• Blessed are the powerful, because they get what they want.
• Blessed are the ones who get away with it, because they get what they want.
• Blessed are the assertive, because they’re not afraid to ask for what they think is coming to them.
• Blessed are the ones who talk with religious words, because actions don’t really matter that much.
• Blessed are the ones who cut the budgets, because we can’t afford to help those people.
• Blessed are the ones who talk about God, because they know who shouldn’t be accepted.
• Blessed are the fighters, because only violence or the threat of violence brings peace.
• Blessed are those who stand up for their religious freedom, unless that person doesn’t follow the right religious beliefs.
• Blessed are you when those others threaten your family values or your territories, because they'll get their comeuppance.

Sigh.