I Am Because We Are – Matthew 5:6
March 17, 2024
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This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today, we unpack Matthew 5:6 and look at the first Beatitude and what it means to be hungry and thirsty for righteousness.
Questions to ponder:
- What does it mean to be “righteous.”
- What does the Greek word “dikaiosune” and the Hebrew “sedaq and sedicah” mean?
- What does it mean to be righteous from the Biblical definition?
- How can we be hungry and thirsty and be satisfied?
- Why must we understand God’s idea of righteousness? Are there eternal consequences?
- What does the word ubuntu mean? Why is it life-changing?
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- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- Jeremiah 22:3
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Psalm 11:7
- Psalm 24:3-6
- abundance
- dikaiosune
- Hungry
- Justice
- lack
- mishpat
- oppressor
- Poor
- Righteous
- Righteousness
- satisfied
- sedaq
- sedicah
- Thirsty
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Claim Your Inheritance – Matthew 5:5
March 10, 2024
- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- Job 24
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Psalm 37:7
- Psalm 72
- Afflicted
- Anav
- Excluded
- Humble
- Humility
- Inheritance
- Justice
- Land
- Needy
- Peace
- Poor
- power
- Praus
- Racial Inequality
- Racism
- Serenity Prayer
- Shalom
- Suffering
- Systemic Injustice
- Systemic Racism
- Unimportant
- White Privilege
- World System
- Wounded
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
- Wesley UMC Festus Missouri
This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today, we unpack Matthew 5:5 and look at the first Beatitude and what it means to be humble and inherit the land.
Grieving But Comforted – Matthew 5:4
March 3, 2024
- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- Isaiah 40
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Aging
- Birth
- Comfort
- Comforted
- Death
- Excluded
- Five Stages of Grief
- Four Big Pillars
- Four Pillars
- Grief
- Grieving
- Illness
- Stages of Grief
- Suffering
- Wounded
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
- Wesley UMC Festus Missouri
This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today, we unpack Matthew 5:4 and look at the first Beatitude and what it means to be “grief and be comforted.”
Hopeless and Happy – Matthew 5:3
February 25, 2024
- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Matthew 5:3
- Ashrey
- Baruk
- Beatitudes
- Emmet Fox
- Hopeless
- Hopelessness
- LBGTQ+
- Love
- Markarious
- Poor in Spirit
- Powerlessness
- Sermon on the Mount
- Spaghetti
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
- Wesley UMC Festus Missouri
This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today we unpack Matthew 5:3, and look at the first Beatitude, and what it means to be “poor in spirit.”
Our Day In History – Acts 28
February 18, 2024
- Harold Long
- Unstoppable
- Acts 28
- Apostle Paul
- Connectional
- Gospel of the Kingdom
- Impact
- Legacy
- Live the Gospel
- Mission
- Missional
- Secularism
- Share the Gospel
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
This six-week series examines the remarkable spread of the gospel and the kingdom of God from Jerusalem, to Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the world. Jesus has commissioned every one of his followers to be his witness by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Let The Journey Begin – Acts 16:1-10
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- Harold Long
- Unstoppable
- Acts 16:1-10
- Apostle Paul
- Bar-Jesus
- Faith
- Healing
- Heart
- Heart of the Problem
- Jesus-Centered
- Jesus-centered Community
- Jesus-Centered Faith
- Jesus-Centered Living
- Jesus-looking God
- Kansas City Chiefs
- Paul and Barnabas
- Paul and Silas
- Peter
- San Francisco 49ers
- Stephen
- The Book of Acts
- Timothy
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
This six-week series examines the remarkable spread of the gospel and the kingdom of God from Jerusalem, to Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the world. Jesus has commissioned every one of his followers to be his witness by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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- Harold Long
- Unstoppable
- Acts 8
- Desmond Doss
- Filled With The Holy Spirit
- Holy Spirit
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
This six-week series examines the remarkable spread of the gospel and the kingdom of God from Jerusalem, to Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the world. Jesus has commissioned every one of his followers to be his witness by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Trouble is Certain for People of Faith – Acts 4:1-5:11
January 21, 2024
- Harold Long
- Unstoppable
- Acts 4:1-5:11
- Courage
- Fear
- Filled With The Holy Spirit
- Holy Spirit
- Overcoming
- Peter and John
- principalities and powers
- Satan
- Sin
- Sin Nature
- Sinful Nature
- Temptation
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
This six-week series examines the remarkable spread of the gospel and the kingdom of God from Jerusalem, to Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the world. Jesus has commissioned every one of his followers to be his witness by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The People Share Everything – Acts 2:1-47
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- Harold Long
- Unstoppable
- Acts 2:1-47
- Disciples
- Discipleship
- Evangelism
- Faith Community
- Frances Chan
- Generosity
- Giving
- Holy Spirit
- Jesus
- Jesus the Christ
- Jesus-Centered
- Jesus-centered Community
- Jesus-centered life
- Jesus-looking God
- Nala Yusof
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
We are in week two of our New Year message series titled “Unstoppable.” Today we unpack Acts 2:-1-47, and how the unstoppable movement of the disciples and Holy Spirit got started. Our scriptures today are some of the most relevant and powerful in the entire Bible.
The Promise, Ascension, and New Disciple – Acts 1:1-26
January 7, 2024
- Harold Long
- Unstoppable
- Acts 1:1-26
- 2023
- 2024
- Acts
- Acts of the Apostles
- Baptism
- Baptism of Fire and Spirit
- C.S. Lewis
- Christianity
- Filled With The Holy Spirit
- Helper
- Holy Spirit
- Jesus
- Jesus-centered life
- Jesus-Centered Living
- Jesus-looking God
- Matthias Replaces Judas
- Paul
- The Ascension of Jesus
- The Promise of the Holy Spirit
- Theophilus
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Some of you are glad the door on 2023 has closed, and others are still celebrating a successful and memorable 2023. Some of you have BIG Plans for 2024, and some may be apprehensive about the new year. Either way, life continues, and we want to get off to a fast and Jesus-centered start. A lot of change is coming in 2024, and we’ll all be a part of that change. To what extent is up to us? We are all linked together like a chain. You must ask, “Am I a weak or strong link in the chain?”