Mar 5 2012
Beatitudes: attitudes that ought to be
Photo: a humble attitude – goal scorer David Luiz points away from himself to where his success comes from.
The Beatitudes (Mt 5.1-12) – are attitudes that ought to be. That is, attitudes that are to be in your life if you want to be blessed. Nearly all the attitudes Jesus lists there have something to do with humility. For example ”the poor in spirit” are those who feel small, and “those who mourn” are those who are down because they have lost out, and ”the meek” are those who do not impose themselves. These are humble attitudes. In fact we could summarize the Beatitudes by saying: “Blessed are the humble.” More
Mar 12 2012
Keeping the past behind
Gen 19.15-26 and Phil 3.7-14
There is a good reason why windscreens are bigger than rear view mirrors. It’s more important for a driver to see what’s in front than what’s behind. If someone decided that what was behind was more important they would want to make the mirror the size of the windscreen, but doing that would make it impossible to see in front and the driver would not be able to move forward.
Christians are people trying to get somewhere, but so often we let our past (what’s behind) mess up our future (what’s in front). More