What if everything you thought about blessing was... backward?

In this powerful message from our Summer on the Mount series, Pastor Casey Olsen walks us through Jesus' upside-down vision of blessing found in the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:2–12). While the world defines blessing through comfort, success, and control, Jesus turns it all on its head—declaring the poor in spirit, the mourners, the meek, and the persecuted as truly blessed.

🎯 Key Themes:

- Why our cultural compass for blessing may be leading us astray

- The surprising grace found in emptiness, mourning, meekness, and mercy

- How the Beatitudes form not just individuals, but a countercultural Kingdom community

- What it means to live a cruciform life of purity, peacemaking, and joy in suffering

Whether you're feeling worn out, overlooked, or spiritually empty, this message will challenge and encourage you to see that God’s Kingdom belongs to the surrendered, not the strong. You’ll be reminded that Jesus didn’t just preach the Beatitudes—He embodied them all the way to the cross.

“Blessed are you…” — not someday, but right now, in the middle of the mess, when you follow Jesus with humility and hope.

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