Advent Service (Week 1)
Online service for the 1st Sunday of Advent featuring a message on “The Beatitudes of Bethlehem” plus other cute silliness involving the Berg children.
Month: November 2020
Blessed are the Underachievers
While the “Most Likely To Succeed” badge may come with a superstitious curse attached, the “Class Mooch” has a very real cultural curse attached to it. In America we celebrate self-made successful people, and look down on the moochers who are dependent on others. What do we make of Jesus’s 3rd Beatitude that seems to promise the farm to the underachieving brother?
Poetic Resonance – Buy the Gift of Positivity
Happy Black Friday … um, I guess? But what if we could purchase some positivity and throw some joy andContinue Reading
Pure Thanksgiving (Skye Jethani)
Beneath the surface, sometimes even hidden from our own awareness, may lurk a more manipulative intent behind our gratitude. The believer sometimes thinks — If I offer these prayers, if I give these sacrifices, and if I show my gratitude for past blessings, then God will bless me again.
Words of Wisdom: Cyprian (AD 256)
“Beloved brethren, we are philosophers not in words but in deeds; we exhibit our wisdom not by our dress, but by truth; we know virtues by their practice rather than through boasting of them; we do not speak great things but we live them.” -St. Cyprian (AD 256)
Bob Dylan on ‘Happiness’ vs. ‘Blessedness’
If chasing worldly happiness is a “yuppie” preoccupation, then we live in a yuppie nation and breathe the oxygen of a yuppie culture. At the end of the day, however, the Bible isn’t a handbook for happiness; it’s a pathway to holiness.
Advent 2020 Overview
The Beatitudes of Bethlehem A new kind of Kingdom was born in Bethlehem that first Christmas. This was to beContinue Reading
Jeremy L. Berg 