This week, we have the excitement of Water Day after church (sprinklers/slip and slide/Kona Ice!!) and all are welcome.
We also are entering into a new sermon series: How to be Blessed: The Beatitudes
Who among us does not want our lives to be happy and blessed? We receive all kinds of advice from our world about how to achieve exactly that, and yet we find that much of it falls short. Jesus has different ideas of what it means to be blessed, and we find those in His Beatitudes. We are going to spend time with each one of His sayings on blessing found in Matthew 5 and consider other places in scripture that affirm the same sources of blessing for us.
This week, we enter into this list of upside down blessings with one that ties them all together: “blessed are the poor in Spirit“. What does this mean? Can any of us relate to poverty in our affluent culture? What does poverty in spirit look like when we have everything that we need? Where do we feel like perhaps we do not have enough or are not enough as people? How in the world does this make us blessed?