Folks, today we’re going to be talking about the kind of relationship that God wants deeply to have with each one of us. But, there’re two sides to it, as usual. God wants to give us his incredible blessing over our life. Today, we’re going to learn together that if we approach life knowing that we are really nothing—spiritually speaking—without the One who is able to meet all of our needs, then we will know Christ! Then, we will experience the blessing of God as only God can give! Then,...
Audio: [audio:http://www.dodgevilleumc.org/pastor/sermonbrowser/?download&file_name=01-24-2010-BeatitudesLuckyaretheUnlucky.mp3|width=90%] Today, we move from ‘who’ Jesus was to the more specific ‘why’ of Jesus’ coming to be part of our history… And, we’re going to do that through the study of Jesus’ own words—his own teaching from the Sermon on the Mount. We’re going to look at those “Blessed are” sayings called “The Beatitudes”… Listen now to our scripture lesson for today, from the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 5 [remember, Chapters 5-7 are the Sermon on the Mount], beginning with the first verse … from The Message… “When...
