Beatitudes: The Happiness That Nobody Wants – Those Who Are Persecuted for Jesus – Part 4
As a disciple of Christ, we need to prepare ourselves to face challenges, opposition, and persecution, throughout our lives. We learned in our last article how to deal with persecution. In this article we will learn something very important. 4 – THE REWARD FOR THOSE WHO ARE PERSECUTED Finally, we learn that there will be […]
Beatitudes: The Happiness That Nobody Wants – Those Who Are Persecuted for Jesus – Part 3
My friends, Jesus made clear to His disciples that they would be persecuted. The other authors in the New Testament took the same route, writing to the churches that they would face persecution because of their faith. In this third article we will learn what Jesus and the apostles had to say about handling persecution. […]
Beatitudes: The Happiness That Nobody Wants – Those Who Are Persecuted for Jesus – Part 2
All the Christians should know this, opposition to our faith is a certainty. It is not a matter of if, but when. Jesus warned the disciples from the beginning. This is what Jesus said: Matt. 5:11 “Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely…” 1 […]
Beatitudes: The Happiness That Nobody Wants – Those Who Are Persecuted – Part 1
We are getting to the end of the Beatitudes. Jesus will talk about the consequences of being a Committed Christian. And, as you already noticed, it is not a wonderful and easy thing. Today, Successful Christianity is measured by the amount of money you make, the good things that you have, and the success of […]
Beatitudes: The Happiness That Nobody Wants – The Peacemakers – Part 3
My friends, more than ever we need peacemakers. The challenge that we face is that most of the time we do not know what a peacemaker is and how to be one. In our last article we saw that to be a peacemaker, the person needs to have peace with God and also peace with […]
Beatitudes: The Happiness That Nobody Wants – The Peacemakers – Part 2
Matt. 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. As you can see on the News, the world is desperately in need of peacemakers. We not only have wars going on around the world, but we also are experiencing disturbance in our cities and neighborhoods. The question is what are […]
Beatitudes: The Happiness That Nobody Wants – The Peacemakers – Part 1
Do you have any idea how many peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis our generation has witnessed? I already forgot how many presidents tried to come up with a solution for that part of the world. But it seems to me that peace is something that is out of reach for some people and some […]
Beatitudes: The Happiness That Nobody Wants – The Pure in Heart – Part 2
“Matt. 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” This beatitude puts the heart in its proper place, in the center of our life. We learn that to have a pure heart we need God’s action in our lives. There is no pure heart without God’s work. But this Beatitude has […]
Beatitudes: The Happiness That Nobody Wants – The Pure in Heart – Part 1
Let me share with you a little bit of my life. I was a teenager, and I was living my life, like every other teenager, maybe a little bit more intense than most of them. Until one day when someone asked me to take a look in my heart. I did not pay attention at […]
Beatitudes: The Happiness That Nobody Wants – The Merciful – Part 3
We have learned that to be merciful we need to receive mercy from God. He is the source of mercy. We also learned that after we receive mercy, we are supposed to share that mercy with others. Today we will learn the next stage of being merciful. 3 – THE MERCIFUL RECEIVES MORE MERCY This […]