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Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Out of all the Beatitudes, this might be the hardest for us to grasp. Is there any other verse in the Bible that goes against the ethos of our age more than this one? Our world just doesn't work this way. But Jesus invites us into something more. This week, we talk about meekness and how our world desperately needs followers of Jesus who believe and embody this Beatitude.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Many of us have mistaken pure in heart to mean perfection, or sinlessness. But to be pure in heart means something quite different. How do we see God? This week, we continue our study of the Beatitudes as we learn about what it means to be pure in heart.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus opens the Sermon on the Mount with a startling claim: the good life belongs to the poor in spirit – the powerless. Far from glorifying misery or offering a future consolation prize, Jesus is naming a present reality – one that dismantles our illusions of control and redefines where true peace, freedom, and flourishing are found.

We live in a time where people within the church have vastly different ideas about what it means to be a Christian. How do we know we are faithfully following Jesus in our context and in our time? We find the answer to that very question in one of the greatest sermons Jesus ever preaching: the Sermon on the Mount. This week, we begin a new collection of teachings centered on the upside down nature of God's Kingdom, as we study the Beatitudes.

Spiritual formation doesn't happen by accident. We are shaped by what we intentionally do, again and again over time. This week, we explore how we are formed through the stories we believe, the habits we live into, and the relationships we surround ourselves with.

What does it look like to embody love? Many of us want to love our neighbors… but we’re busy, overwhelmed, or unsure if our effort even matters. This week, Yesuto wrestles with those obstacles and reminds us that faith without action is dead. Following Jesus means centering the vulnerable, choosing humility, and stepping into real service.

What if the disconnect many of us feel in our faith isn’t from a lack of belief—but from a lack of embodiment? We find throughout Scripture that faith was never meant to be lived only in your head. It was meant to be lived in your body. This week, we establish a theology of the body and how God calls us to lived embodied lives of faith.

Waiting is an inevitable part of the human experience. There's no getting around it. Advent reminds us that much of life is lived in the tension of waiting. The question isn't IF we'll wait, the question is HOW we'll wait. This week, we study Psalm 130 as we discern how God wants to meet us in our waiting.

In the journey of faith, we are so prone to forget the goodness of God. And in forgetting, fear stands taller than God's promise in our lives. Gratitude is what helps us overcome our fears and clearly see God's fingerprints in our everyday experience. Today, we explore the subtle temptation of entitlement and the power of praying gratitude.

As we conclude our time in the book of Ezra, we find some troubling things happening in the final two chapters, that highlight a temptation we all face as followers of Jesus. Rather than taking personal responsibility for how far we've drifted from God's heart, we blame some external force or circumstance. This week, we explore what it means to rebuild our altars from the inside out and return to God's heart.