Jesus Loves Me This I Know
Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Mark 10:14
Today, Pastor Mary read
Mark 10:13-16 and talked about the upside kingdom we have been learning about in the beatitudes. We have to accept God's kingdom with the trust of a little child!
And Jeremiah gave us some food for thought at the end... it is better to be humbled than to be successful.
Labels: Sermon on the Mount
Blessed are the Pure in Heart
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Matthew 5:8
You're blessed when you get your inside world - your mind and heart - put right. Then you can see God in the outside world. The Message
Today Pastor Mary talked about this beatitude and read the story of the poor widow's offering. Even though her offering wasn't as much as the other's, Jesus saw her heart. She gave all she had out of her poverty. A person who is pure in heart would be innocent and untainted by evil. As creatures of the fall we can never have perfectly pure motivations, but we need to work on making sure Jesus is the grounding part of our life. We heard about the part in David's life when he became more of a king than a child of God and threw his weight around in the wrong way. After he realized where he had gone wrong, he wrote
Psalm 51. Verse 10 says "Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me." May we should always seek God to make our minds and heart put right.
Labels: Sermon on the Mount
