explore the Sermon on the Mount. This session covers the third Beatitude:

"God's favor is on the meek, for they will inherit the earth." Josh

talks about how meekness is not weakness and the people that Jesus had in mind

were the oppressed people groups of his day.

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Week 4 - A Year on the Mountaintop

Join Dr. Josh Olds as he goes on a one-year journey to explore the Sermon on the Mount. This session covers the second Beatitude: "God's favor is on those who mourn, for they will be comforted." Josh talks about how the people of God's community must be brokenhearted over sin, injustice, and inequality.

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Week 3 - A Year on the Mountaintop

Join Dr. Josh Olds as he goes on a one-year journey to explore the Sermon on the Mount. This session covers the first Beatitude: "God's favor is on the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs." Josh talks about the meaning of being poor in spirit, contrasting it with the zeitgeist of the age, which said to be rich in spirit. He concludes that poverty of spirit is the realization that we are not complete or whole unless we make room for God's Spirit within us.

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Join Dr. Josh Olds as he goes on a one-year journey to explore the Sermon on the Mount.

Session 2 takes a view of the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-16, showing that a proper translation of the Beatitudes isn't about what we think of blessedness, but about having God's favor.

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