Wholehearted Love

Simplicity

New Beginnings

Happy Easter and Joy Always!

The Truth That Sets Us Free

God’s Word tells us to be in the world but not of it. What does that mean? How can we be in the world, but not of the world? By recognizing the truth. God’s Word also tells us that we shall know the truth, and the truth will set us free.   So what is the truth?

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Revelations

Happy Is the Way to Be

Want to be truly happy? The Beatitudes point the way. This is a lesson I learned some months ago after hearing my pastor preach a series of sermons about the Beatitudes found at the beginning of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in the Book of Matthew of the New Testament. It was such an eye-and-heart-opening series of sermons that the messages are still fresh in my mind. One thing I noticed in particular was the way in which he used the words "blessed" and "happy" interchangeably as he so beautifully dissected each Beatitude.

This prompted me to look up the word "blessed" to see if, in fact, it means happy. To my delight, I found this definition in Webster's online dictionary for blessed: "of or enjoying happiness." And in some versions of the Bible, such as The Good News Translation, the word "happy" is substituted for the word "blessed" in each of the Beatitudes.

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