"blessed" week 4

The Bridge & The Border:

The Beatitudes:

Poor in Spirit

Mourn

Meek

Hungry For Righteousness

Merciful

Crossing into God’s Kingdom

• Your truest self• Thoughts, Feelings,

Actions

Blessed are the Pure in Heart…

kardia“Heart”

kaqaros“Pure”

• Undivided, Unmixed• Singleness of Thought

“Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing.’ ”

The Pure in Heart

Soren Kierkegaard

Blessed are

Focus in LifePurity of Heart means

“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

Luke 10

Focus in LifePurity of Heart means

“The closer I come to the HUB of life, the closer I come to all that receives its strength from there. My tendancy is to get so distracted by the diversity of the many spokes of life, that I am busy, but not truly life giving…”

Henri Nouwen

Focus in LifePurity of Heart means

“…all over the place but not focused… what does the hub represent? I think of it as my own heart, the heart of God, and the heart of the world.”

Henri Nouwen

Freedom From IdolsPurity of Heart means

Luke 10

“Who may ascend… he who has a clean hand, and a pure heart, and does not life up his soul to an idol.”

Psalm 24

“I will sprinkle you and cleanse you from your impurities and your idolatries.”

Ezekiel

Freedom From IdolsPurity of Heart means

Luke 10

““Samaria, throw out your calf-idol! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?”

Hosea 8:5

“No one can serve two masters.”

Matthew 6:24

“The human heart is an idol factory.”

John Calvin

Freedom From Idols

Purity of Heart means

“The good things that we really desire… if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”

C. S. Lewis

Freedom From Idols

Purity of Heart means

“I need Christ, not something that resembles Him. I want Joy, not something that is like her.”

C. S. Lewis & Joy Gresham

Freedom From Idols

Purity of Heart means

Blessed are the Pure in Heart: