4th Sunday After the Epiphany
Matt 5:1-13 Okay I am finally ready to talk about Minnesota, okay I am not actually ready but I am going to do it anyway. And it fits, because we are now right smack dab in the middle of our series about what it means to be a means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. And this week is when it starts to get hard. Because the message in our lessons this week is pretty serious, and seriously misunderstood. I mean they shouldn’t actually be that hard, really we all know what these texts say, the message is clear, we just don’t always like it. And so, we start today with our Gospel Lesson, where Jesus begins his great Sermon on the Mount with the Beatitudes. And I am sure that this text is pretty familiar, probably very familiar. I would say this passage is probably in the top 5 of most quoted scripture passages in the Bible. Everyone knows the Beatitudes, but when we really look at them deeply and carefully, I am not sure they actually make ...