Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Matthew 5:6      For many, when they think of righteousness, they start with trying to make their country or their community live with righteousness and justice.  There is much debate on what this justice might look like.  Some argue that…

 Matthew 5:5 “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” Luke 2:52 “And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.”      It seems almost irreverent to suggest that Jesus had to grow in favor with God.  But that is exactly what Luke tells us in Luke…

People often rise and fall on the image of how we see them. There is a story told about a man in a small village of England, who the literature refers to as a “sot”.  A sot is a drunkard.  Think of Otis from Andy Griffith.  Otis’s identity was as the town drunk.  Nobody expected…

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5     Too often we look at words like “meek,” and we see “weak”.  But a more accurate look at what Jesus would have meant was something like strength under control.  A person who is meek is strong and powerful yet under control.  Jesus,…