Grieving But Comforted – Matthew 5:4
March 3, 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 5:4 and look at the first Beatitude and what it means to “grief and be comforted.”
Questions to ponder:
1. What does it mean to be “grieve.”
2. How would you describe the “good life” or what it means to be “happy?”
3. What does it mean to be comforted?
4. How is it possible to grieve and be comforted?
5. How do we experience the Kingdom of God in the present tense?
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- 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
How to Live and How to Die
September 10, 2023
- Harold Long
- How to Live and How to Die
- Ephesians 5:15-16
- Psalm 42
- Psalm 90
- Bless the Lord O My Soul
- Cancer
- COVID-19
- Death
- Dr. Tim Keller
- First Time Experience
- Francis Collins
- Growing My Faith in the Face of Death
- H.H. Breaker Morant
- How to Live and How to Die
- John Newton
- Jonathan Edwards
- Kathy Keller
- Life
- On Death
- Summa Theologiae
- The last day of your life
- Thomas Aquinas
- Yoda
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Today’s message is titled “How to Live and How to Die.” Today, Pastor Harold unpacks Psalm 90 and helps us understand how to live a Jesus-centered life with a sense of excitement and urgency. Next, we’ll look at how to die from the experience, strength, and hope of the late Dr. Tim Keller and by putting our faith in a Jesus-looking God.
Christians Are Like Tea Bags; You Don’t Know What They Are Made of Until You Put Them in Hot Water
September 3, 2023
- Harold Long
- Christians Are Like Tea Bags
- Ecclesiastes 3:1-15
- John 14:3
- Revelation 19:6-9
- Accidents
- Aging
- Buddhism
- Death
- ekklesia
- Fatalism
- Four Pillars
- Illness
- King Solomon
- Paganism
- Platonism
- Qoheleth
- Self-reliance
- Son of David
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Today’s message is titled “Christians Are Like Tea Bags; You Don’t Know What They Are Made Of Until You Put Them In Hot Water.” Today, Pastor Harold unpacks Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 and helps us understand the philosophy of fatalism and how it deludes our relationship with God. We look at the Four Big Pillars of Life and how, depending on our faith, we will deal with them when we are put into hot water, and all human beings will experience hot water; there is no avoiding it. If you are alive, you experience #1; we all will experience #4; and if we live long enough, we will experience #2 & #3, and not just for ourselves, but others we love: 1. Birth (Fate Determines) 2. Illness/accidents 3. Aging 4. Death
When Bad Things Happen
July 10, 2022
- Dr. Lonnie Richardson
- When Bad Things Happen
- 2 Corinthians 1:3-11
- Revelation 21:1-4
- Accidents
- Catastrophic Events
- Death
- Disability
- Disease
- Grace
- It Is What It Is
- Jesus
- Life on Life's Terms
- Mercy
- Pain
- Suffering
- The Circle of Life
- The Wrath of God
- Why Doesn't God Do Something?
- Why God?
- Transformation UMC
Welcome to today’s message, “When Bad Things Happen.” Today, our guest, Dr. Lonnie Richardson, unpacks 2 Corinthians 1:3-11 & Revelation 21:1-4, and we will discover how we are to respond as people of faith when bad things happen.
Time is of the Essence, and the Essence is Jesus
August 22, 2021
- Harold Long
- Summer In The Psalms
- Psalm 90
- Death
- Dying
- Faith
- God's Wrath
- Hope
- Love
- Time
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
We are continuing in our message series, “Summer In The Psalms.” Today we will unpack Psalm 90 and tackle the hard questions centered around time management, dying, God’s wrath, and how to live a Jesus-centered life with the borrowed time we are allotted here on earth.