series13 posts · 2018
#blessed
Written from January 2018 to April 2018. Read in order, from the top.
Really Blessed
For a few months I have been in a #blessed mood.
Forgiveness Equals Freedom
Of all the things that Christians have, what would make an unbeliever most jealous?
The Very First Blessing
We continue our series of exhortations to confession based on the idea of blessing.
He Invites Us In
What sort of God looks to make His people happy?
In the Orchard of Blessings
In this series of exhortations focused on God's blessings, it would have been more awkward not to reference the beginning of the…
The Limits of Pretending Friends
First in the field of blesseds according to Jesus is being "poor in spirit."
Left Without Discipline
We are still in a series of exhortations to confession focused on being blessed.
Most Likely to Be an Arbiter
I don't plan to make this an exhaustive series of exhortations covering all the blesseds in the Bible, but part of the…
Two Blesseds
When Jesus talks about those who are blessed He really messes up our categories.
Sex Is for Fruit
"Blessed the man that fears Jehovah and that walketh in His ways."
Cosmic and Concentrated
Blessing runs in two directions at the beginning of Paul's letter to the Ephesians.
Choices as Saints
On the night before Jesus' crucifixion, when He knew that His hour had come to die, He described the blessed life to…
Blessed Forever
Since the Sunday of New Year's Eve I have focused our exhortations to confession around the idea of being blessed.