InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network
You’re blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God’s kingdom. Not only that—count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discreditRead more…
Can the ordinary believer be a peacemaker? The answer, says Jesus, is a resounding YES!Read more…
You’re blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world. — Matthew 5:8 (The Message) Notice that God does NOT say, “Blessed are the perfect.” Purity of heart, thatRead more…
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. — Matthew 5:7 Probably next to love, no other character quality so defines God as that of “mercy”. And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you andRead more…
You’re blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink in the best meal you’ll ever eat. – Matthew 5:6 “Hungering and thirsting” for God is one of the principles of kingdom-living, Jesus teaches us here.Read more…
You’re blessed that when truly broken, God gives you what you need the most. – Matthew 5:4 This is the second of a series of nine Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-12) in the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus has been laying downRead more…