Sheila speaks on her journey through the Beatitudes focusing on the call to be peacemakers.

Good news – God doesn’t care what we look like but He is concerned with our heart condition.

Richard considers this simple beatitude – Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy. Richard considers how mercy is good but not always easy.

The discussion examples are shown below.

• A man who has ended up in debt through bad choices, addictions and gambling, and who is struggling to engage with the help he’s being offered.
• A woman who left the country several years ago to join a terrorist organisation but who now wants to return to this country with her children.
• A single mum with lots of children who’s always late for school and seems to feel entitled to park on a double yellow line, blocking the flow of traffic on the school run.
• An angry man who feels that no one helps him even though he believes his entitled to help, and does little to help himself.
• A rude shop assistant who you see regularly in a shop near your home.
• An opinionated person who holds an entrenched, maybe extreme, point of view about other people or groups of people (eg refugees, travellers, the poor) and who won’t stop talking about it.
• A neighbor who seems miserable and miserly. He often deliberately does things to make hard for others and is generally unneighbourly.

Life lived alone is miserable. Richard speaks on how the gospel opposite of solitary confinement is community confinement!

Richard speaks on the challenge and importance of living present to the moment that is happening right now.

Daniel develops the idea of meekness and humility.

Richard begins a series in the book of Ecclesiastes and even sings a bit of the Rolling Stones. Vanity of vanities all is vanity and grasping at the wind!

Richard speaks on one of the many reasons why we gather together as a church – We gather in the image of a gathered God!

Below is the slide that Richard refers to in the message.

Richard continues the series on the Beatitudes, or ‘Happy Attitudes’ – Happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.

Richard continues the series on the Beatitudes, or ‘Happy Attitudes’ – Happy are those who mourn for they will be comforted.