by Bill Gaultiere | Mar 25, 2022 | The Beatitudes
I don’t like to be meek. I like to be in control. I like to be right, independent, strong, organized, able to handle whatever happens to me, viewed positively by people and on top of my emotions. I am a “Gut” personality on the Enneagram. That includes Perfectionist...
by Bill Gaultiere | Mar 11, 2022 | The Beatitudes
Following Dallas Willard’s line of thinking in The Divine Conspiracy, we don’t believe Jesus is saying, “Be merciful and you will be blessed.” Rather, his idea is, “As a tender-hearted person you get stepped on and burdened by people’s pain, yet the Father of mercies...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Sep 21, 2021 | The Beatitudes, The Founder's Desk
This blog post started as the introduction to a book review (details below), but I rather quickly realized I had two posts on my hands, not one: There are two quotes about the beatitudes that I love: “Our present day Christianity, anemic and weak from parasites that...