Theme: The Beatitudes Brethren, Trust this finds you well? Please forgive me for sending this so late. I ran into some serious hitch This Sunday, we look at the last of the Beatitudes. It must have shocked Jesus’ listeners that He wrapped up the Beatitudes with the bow of persecution, the Read more…
Theme: The Beatitudes Brethren, Hope this finds you well? This week, we come to the 7th Beatitude – the blessedness of the peacemakers. Key Learning Points: 1. By being peacemakers, we become like Jesus Christ who, as the Prince of Peace, came to reconcile us first to God, and then Read more…
Theme: The Beatitudes Brethren, How are you doing today? I trust you are well. This week, we look at the second part on the blessedness of the pure in heart. This time, we shall be considering how we might grow in purity. Key Learnings points are:1. To be pure in heart means to Read more…
Theme: The Beatitudes Brethren, This Sunday, we shall look at the sixth beatitude – the blessedness of the pure in heart, with a special focus on purity of devotion to God. It reminds one of the first commandment – to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength. Read more…
Topic: The Beatitudes Brethren, This week we come to the fifth beatitude as contained in the Sermon on the Mount – This blessedness of the merciful. And when you think of Peter’s question which triggered Jesus’ story in Matthew 18:21-35, you realize how much we need this beatitude. Key Learning Read more…
Theme: The Beatitudes Brethren, Love is in the air😊 But that is not the topic of our Bible Study this Sunday. Our Bible Study this week continues our quarter series on the Beatitudes. And we shall be looking at the Blessedness of those who hunger and thirst. Key Learning Points Read more…
Theme: The Beatitudes Brethren, Happy new month. We continue with our quarter series on the Beatitudes. This time, we look at the blessedness of the meek. Key Learnings:1. “Meekness” is a humble attitude that expresses itself in the patient endurance of offences. “Gentleness” is a practical synonym. It implies mercy Read more…
Theme: The Beatitudes Brethren, Often, our prayers tend to incline towards a problem free life. But in ‘Blessed are those who mourn,’ our Lord Jesus seems to be turning that on its head. Please see attached outline as you prepare for this challenging teaching on the blessedness of loss/grief. Key Read more…
Theme: The Beatitudes This SUnday, we continue our study on the blessedness of those who are poor in spirit. This time, our focus is on humility and dependence as aspects of that poverty of spirit. Key Learning points include: 1. Dependence on God enables humility because we realize Jesus is Read more…
Theme: The Beatitudes This week we dig into the kingdom blessings. Our first stop is surrender as an aspect of being poor in spirit. Key Learning points include: 1. Jesus came to this earth not to set up a physical, material, or political kingdom but to usher in a spiritual Read more…