Trouble in the Familiar Words (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Listening to the words of the Beatitudes what true blessings mean comparing them to the way of the world uncomfortable ...
Listening to the words of the Beatitudes what true blessings mean comparing them to the way of the world uncomfortable ...
Christ speaking of the blessed of God the opposite of the world compared to the values of the earth the ...
Those whom society would reject the poor, the lost, the sick seeing Christ in the face of all of them ...
All people on the earth not just the firm believers the people of the book all the whole world loved ...
All of us matter all children of God none of us to be left out all who seek God who ...
The Jew, the Gentile the poor, the lame the one who grabbed the brass ring all of us treated equally ...
In this pearl of his ministry going to the mountain retreat speaking from the heart sharing so much with the ...
A confidence as believers in the words of the scripture God speaking to us on what it means to be ...
No different than us none set apart none excluded by God all worthy of his love The redeeming by our ...
Ours not to judge to set them apart all of them loved by God no difference as the world would ...
Through Christ, a kingdom though not of this earth the kingdom of God revealed in his love for us submitting ...
In bowing in prayer asking for forgiveness of our sin reminders of your mercy for all that we had done ...
When we remember our sin our failings before God needing to be mindful too of your forgiving our sin bringing ...
In the prayer we shared thinking deeply about our sin yet remembering your forgiveness your atoning love not the stain ...
Those poor in heart not full of themselves walking humbly in life going to glory at the end of their ...
From two flocks out of many made one By his blood One people in the family all of us children ...
Sheep of many colors those nearby and those scattered far away joining into one flock following one shepherd calling to ...
Brought together by grace by the love of God come down separated by the law brought together in love One ...
Joined together the sheep of different flocks brought together in Christ made one new people freed from the law bound ...
In each word of prayer coming humbly before God new because of the death of the Christ rising to glory ...
All of humanity the people and the rest all brought together into the family of God The wall dividing broken ...
Not by our deeds by fulfilling the law all of man guilty of sin Through the gate of Christ able ...
The separation one people from another since the time of Abraham the wall removed through the sacrifice of Christ all ...
Not so much an abolishment the spirit of the law the code of Moses carried by the people Christ, in ...
One people, one body the church all over the world united through Christ unity restored Through his sacrifice his blood, ...
God's awesome love, his boundless forgiveness held up against our sin our stain washed away for us to remember, to ...
In our prayers in our confessions before God mindful of his mercy letting go of our sin in the forgiveness ...
We are blessed, no so much from the external signs blessed within, within our hearts, our spirits the gifts manifested, ...
Happiness, not something external a state of being, deep within, within ourselves living with us, walking with us, our hearts ...
Wisdom in the scripture, of the nature of blessing an internal feeling, something within not something we have done to ...
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