Download or read book An Angel of the Beatitudes written by Emily Ketring and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Ketring was a loving mother, wife, fervent Catholic, and active in her community just finishing her second term as mayor of Perry, Florida, when the unthinkable occurred: she lost her fifteen-year-old daughter, Angel, in a tragic car accident. This life-altering loss led Ketring on a spiritual journey of faith that changed her forever. More than just a collection of journal entries detailing one mother's grief, An Angel of the Beatitudes comprises deep reflections on the nature and character of God and the painful yet refining power of suffering. Ketring doesn't shy away from the difficult questions, including the most difficult of all: When you lose a child, is God still "good, just, and trustworthy"? Ketring shares her struggles as she wrestles with doubt and puts her faith to the most exacting of tests. Instead of abandoning the church or becoming hard-hearted, Ketring chooses to seek the face of God even when the desolation seems overwhelming. If you open your mind to the possibility that suffering can increase your capacity for love, joy, and faith, this honest work straight from a grieving mother's heart will illuminate that most compelling of beatitudes: "Blessed are those who mourn."
Download or read book Blessed are They Or Thoughts on the Beatitudes written by Jesse Samuel Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seven written by Jeff Cook and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beatitudes of Jesus stand in sharp contrast to what ancient believers identified as the Seven Deadly Sins. Both promise us life at its fullest---but only one delivers. Setting the Beatitudes one by one against the Sins, Seven reveals how the Beatitudes point us from the nothingness that devours to the blessedness that restores and fills.
Download or read book The Beatitudes An exposition of Matthew 5 1 12 written by Thomas Watson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exposition on the famously known "Sermon on the Mount" of the Lord Jesus Christ. Watson goes verse by verse of the Beatitudes that open up the sermon giving examples and ways to live out the words that Jesus handed down to all people for all time.
Download or read book The Beatitudes written by Romella J. McNeil and published by Sedate State. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares the wisdom of Jesus, as revealed in His "Sermon on the Mount". This book will help you live your life according to the will of God. You will be encouraged and inspired to live your best life now! The Beatitudes are the only life-guide that you'll ever need.
Download or read book The Beatitudes from the Back Side written by J. Ellsworth Kalas and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Ellsworth Kalas opens up new possibilities of insight into the beatitudes, Jesus' blessings from the Sermon on the Mount.
Download or read book Queer Angels in Post 1945 American Literature and Culture written by David Deutsch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Allen Ginsberg's 'angel-headed hipsters' to angelic outlaws in Essex Hemphill's Conditions, angelic imagery is pervasive in queer American art and culture. This book examines how the period after 1945 expanded a unique mixture of sacred and profane angelic imagery in American literature and culture to fashion queer characters, primarily gay men, as embodiments of 'bad beatitudes'. Deutsch explores how authors across diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, including John Rechy, Richard Bruce Nugent, Allen Ginsberg, and Rabih Alameddine, sought to find the sacred in the profane and the profane in the sacred. Exploring how these writers used the trope of angelic outlaws to celebrate men who rebelled wilfully and nobly against religious, medical, legal and social repression in American society, this book sheds new light on dissent and queer identities in postmodern American literature.
Download or read book The Beatitudes through the Ages written by Rebekah Eklund and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beatitudes are among the most influential teachings in human history. For two millennia, they have appeared in poetry and politics, and in the thought of mystics and activists, as Christians and others have reflected on their meaning and shaped their lives according to the Beatitudes’ wisdom. But what does it mean to be hungry, or meek, or pure in heart? Is poverty a material condition or a spiritual one? And what does being blessed entail? In this book, Rebekah Eklund explores how the Beatitudes have affected readers across differing eras and contexts. From Matthew and Luke in the first century, to Martin Luther King Jr. and Billy Graham in the twentieth, Eklund considers how men and women have understood and applied the Beatitudes to their own lives through the ages. Reading in the company of past readers helps us see how rich and multifaceted the Beatitudes truly are, illuminating what they might mean for us today.
Download or read book The Beatitudes written by Chuck Lamattina and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain once said, "Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, I have always noticed that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand." As I began to study the beatitudes, I struggled to understand exactly what the Lord Jesus Christ was teaching. But once I did understand I felt like Mark Twain and was even more troubled. I thought to myself that I could never live up to the qualities of character presented in these words of our Lord. But this struggle to understand what Christ taught was a very good thing for me, because just as Jacob's wrestling with an angel brought him a blessing. I was brought to the point of learning that what God requires of us in the beatitudes, He also enables us to do. And this has brought me closer to loving God with all my heart, soul mind and strength.
Download or read book The Beatitudes of Christ written by Howard Agnew Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beatitudes written by Robert Howie Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beatitudes for Today written by James C. Howell and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume of the For Today series, author and pastor James Howell takes us on an engaging exploration of the Beatitudes. Howell considers each of the well-known phrases in these passages from Matthew and creatively applies Jesus' teachings to our contemporary world and Christian lives. The For Today series was designed to provide reliable and accessible resources for the study and real life application of important biblical texts, theological documents, and Christian practices. The emphasis of the series is not only on the realization and appreciation of what these subjects have meant in the past, but also on their value in the present--"for today." Thought-provoking questions are included at the end of each chapter, making the books ideal for personal study and group use.
Download or read book Words from the Hill written by Stu Garrard and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disruptive and surprising journey through the Beatitudes. Most of the time, life doesn't work out like we expect it will. We spend time and energy trying to climb some sort of spiritual ladder, oblivious to the fact that it is God who is moving toward us. We want answers to our problems, yet what is offered is presence. What if we were to become united with our brokenness rather than our victories? What if God moves closest to us in the absence, the ache, and the longing? Words from the Hill turns each beatitude on its head to see the unexpected beneath the understood--diving into the story of a woman on death row to speak about mercy, personal stories from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to talk about peace, and much more. Stu Garrard has walked with these people in their stories, and he vulnerably offers his own as he unpacks the Good News of the Beatitudes. God is on your side, and He is closer than you think.
Download or read book The Beatitudes Or a Discourse Upon Part of Christs Famous Sermon on the Mount written by Thomas Watson and published by . This book was released on 1671 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beatitudes Not Platitudes written by Paul Louis Metzger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatitudes, Not Platitudes shows that the Beatitudes are not overused, well-worn answers to the question, "What would Jesus do?" Rather, they are undervalued and hardly touched claims that transform our destinies. More than spiritual nuggets for personal devotion, practical advice, or propositions to be believed, the Beatitudes in Matthew 5 envision and entail a reorientation of the good life in view of Jesus' kingdom. Jesus' teachings reveal to us that living our best purpose-driven life now involves dying to self and the world system, and dying for our enemies. Ideal for group study, this series of meditations on each of the Beatitudes, followed by cultural reflections and study questions, helps to bridge the gaps between personal devotion and societal revolution, the academic and the practical, the ancient and the contemporary. All of us want to be happy, to be well and blessed, and esteemed with honor. However, we look for happiness, wellness, blessing, and honor in different places and with mixed results. This book helps us reimagine the good life by taking a fresh look at the Beatitudes as citizens of Jesus' ever-new kingdom order.
Download or read book The Beautiful Attitudes written by Stephen M. Crotts and published by CSS Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pocket-sized book, Crotts quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes as saying, Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. Crotts provides relevant background and contextual information while his contemporary illustrations put the Beatitudes in proper perspective.
Download or read book Thoughts on the Harmony Between the Beatitudes and the Lord s Prayer written by Augustus Theodore Wirgman and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
