TOPIC INDEXReexamining the Beatitudes (10)
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  1. Matthew 5:1-12 – Epiphany 4 (A)

    book
    01/24/23
    1 min
    By John W. Hoyum Steven Paulson
    In this episode of Preaching the Text, we discuss the beatitudes – what Luther once described as the devil's favorite text of scripture to distort.

  2. The Eighth Beatitude: The Persecution of the Gospel

    book
    08/12/21
    12 mins
    By Martin Luther Haroldo Camacho
    As long as the church teaches the gospel, it will suffer persecution.

  3. The Seventh Beatitude: Pax or Hapax?

    book
    08/05/21
    12 mins
    By Haroldo Camacho
    The title “peacemakers” is not ours except as we tell and retell his peacemaking story.

  4. The Sixth Beatitude: Makarios in a Crucible?

    book
    07/29/21
    12 mins
    By Haroldo Camacho
    We are not saved by the success of our refining process. We are saved precisely because our impurities, no matter what the percentage, ruin the whole thing.

  5. The Fifth Beatitude: The Most Surprising Act of Grace

    book
    07/22/21
    14 mins
    By Haroldo Camacho
    Jesus did not need a single act of mercy to get him started on the road to mercy, his essence was by nature merciful.

  6. The Fourth Beatitude: More than Cornucopias for the Hungry

    book
    07/15/21
    8 mins
    By Haroldo Camacho
    Blessed are we, for we are filled by the cornucopia of Christ’s righteousness.

  7. The Third Beatitude: The Meek Are Not Pushovers

    book
    07/08/21
    11 mins
    By Haroldo Camacho
    The only one rightful heir of the kingdom of God, inherits from us, our cross, and descends into the kingdom of the damned.

  8. The Second Beatitude: From Tears to Joy

    book
    07/01/21
    11 mins
    By Haroldo Camacho
    The giver of life, the source of joy, stands weeping together with the human family as they grieve under the curse of sin.

  9. The First Beatitude: Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit

    book
    06/24/21
    13 mins
    By Haroldo Camacho
    “Poverty of spirit” is not an ethical value we strive for. It is an act of God’s mercy spoken to the deepest recesses of our soul when it’s overwhelmed by God’s grace.

  10. The Scandalous Blessing of Makarios: An Introduction to the Beatitudes

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    06/17/21
    13 mins
    By Haroldo Camacho
    The only one truly blessed of God, who in himself is God’s incarnate makarios, surrounds himself with a multitude of the accursed, the non-makarios.

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