Living the Beatitudes Today Study Guide
Living the Beatitudes Today Study Guide

Author: Guy Robert Peel Steward

Publisher: Ambassador International

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1649600399

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Living the Beatitudes Today Study Guide is supplementary to the book Living the Beatitudes Today. It is a companion guide with complementary notes, insights, and questions. This whole study guide is to consolidate, revise, and further explore the Beatitudes. The notes are crucial to a more complete understanding of the text. Each beatitude is given one or more key supporting Scriptures for memorisation, supplementary notes on the specific meaning and application of that beatitude, and study questions to help the student to personalise the information, enlarge their understanding, and think further on how to apply it in their daily life. Living the Beatitudes Today Study Guide could be used for private or small group study, yet is comprehensive enough for Bible college/seminary classes and tutorials. The Appendix on Law is particularly for those students who would like a better grasp of this rather more complex subject.

The Ladder of the Beatitudes
The Ladder of the Beatitudes

Author: Jim Forest

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1608330826

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Drawing on stories from the lives of the saints, scripture, and everyday life, Jim Forest opens up the mysteries of the Beatitudes. These ancient blessings, with which Christ began his Sermon on the Mount, are all aspects of communion with God. As Forest shows, they are like rungs on a ladder, each one leading to the next. They appear at the doorway of the New Testament to provide an easily memorized summary of everything that follows, right down to the crucifixion ("Blessed are you who are persecuted") and the resurrection ("Rejoice and be glad").

Kingdom of Happiness
Kingdom of Happiness

Author: Jeffrey Kirby

Publisher:

Published: 2017-11-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781505105902

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In this encouraging, easy-to-read book, Father Jeffrey Kirby offers hope to the tired, overburdened, and unhappy. He reminds us that we are made for happiness. But he goes beyond that, showing us the path to achieving happiness. It's not a new path. In fact, Jesus showed us the way in the Beatitudes, but Kingdom of Happiness reveals how these aren't merely nice sayings, they are powerful ways of living.

Momentum
Momentum

Author: Colin S. Smith

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0802493742

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The Beatitudes are not telling you how to become a Christian—they tell you what a true Christian looks like. Everyone wants to be blessed. We want to be blessed in life, blessed in death, and blessed in eternity. In the Beatitudes, the Son of God tells us about the life that is blessed and about the people who are blessed. But Jesus does more than just describe a blessed life, He gives us a way to actually pursue it. If you want to make strides in overcoming sin, growing in godliness, abounding in good works, and enjoying intimacy with the Lord, this book is for you. And if you have lost hope that any of these things are possible, this book is especially for you. You can make progress, starting today.

Words from the Hill
Words from the Hill

Author: Stu Garrard

Publisher: NavPress

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1631465996

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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.

What Jesus Meant
What Jesus Meant

Author: Erik Kolbell

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780664222925

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In this timely exploration of the Beatitudes, Kolbell suggests that the eight pillars--meekness, empathy, righteousness, peace, persecution, poverty, purity, and simplicity--are still valuable codes of conduct for busy, anxious lives.

Blessed Are You
Blessed Are You

Author: Christopher J. Ruff

Publisher:

Published: 2018-01-14

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 9780983125778

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The newest title in the Discipleship Series of compact small-group resources "for people with busy lives but open hearts." Features 6 engaging sessions that reflect on the Beatitudes, drawing on Scripture and the Catechism and illustrated through brief stories of people touched by grace: Blessed Solanus Casey, St. Gemma Galgani, Blessed Padre Pro, a Death Row inmate, a saintly young boy with Down syndrome, and St. Teresa of Calcutta. Includes prayer and discussion questions integral to growth as a disciple of Jesus Christ.

The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes
The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes

Author: Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2012-09-14

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1442215550

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The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes are often considered significant texts for the Christian moral life. However, most interpretations of these passages either focus on the original meaning of the text or how the texts should impact ordinary living today. In The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan brings together biblical studies and Christian ethics to look at these foundational texts in a new way. For each passage Chan asks both what the texts meant and what they mean today. He helps readers to carefully study the text’s original meaning, then interpret the text within a sound ethical framework. The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes is an excellent introduction to key concepts in biblical studies and Christian ethics that combines sound study with warmth and wisdom.

Sermon on the Mount Leader Guide
Sermon on the Mount Leader Guide

Author: Amy-Jill Levine

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 1501899929

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How is the follower of Jesus to understand the words of the Old Testament? How are those words relevant to the New Covenant he is establishing? What might the words of the Lord’s Prayer have conveyed to his initial followers, and why is that historical information essential to the prayer two millennia later? In Sermon on the Mount, Dr. Amy-Jill Levine takes a detailed and colorful overview of Matthew 5-7, collectively known as Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Through Dr. Levine’s engaging method of biblical interpretation, readers will come away with a solid understanding of the Sermon on the Mount in its historical and theological context. Chapters include: The Beatitudes The Extensions Practicing Piety Our Father Finding Your Treasure Living into the Kingdom Explore the major topics in the most popular sermon ever delivered and unpack how Jesus makes his points using a solid knowledge of Hebrew Scriptures and moral teachings. The Leader Guide includes session outline for each group meeting with Scripture, prayer, opening activity, discussion questions, activity, and ending call to action.