The Beatitudes occupy an expansive realm in God's Promised Land, a bountiful spiritual frontier suspended between heaven and earth. Plunge into God's plentiful grace and goodness to explore this marvelous kingdom in his sequenced and purposeful order. The Beatitudes are a supremely challenging journey, requiring significant sacrifice of earthly nature and great emptying of self. The grand reward is total saturation in God's spirit and living life as Jesus did upon this earth. Experience the Beatitudes in all their richness to comprehend even more completely that celestial world's way of life! Enter through the Door of Christ and encounter your spiritual poverty alongside God's great richness! Climb the Mirrored Mountains of Meekness. Descend into the Purging Valley for the Pure in Heart. Allow each incredible Beatitude to lead you forward toward the unique and purposeful life God has planned for you first on earth and forever in heaven! Discover an ever deeper relationship with God and your fellowman which will never end, neither here nor there! Accompany Wesley Baker's amazing spiritual journey in The Epilogue: The Powerful Pilgrimage of a Suffering Saint, as he finds himself transformed by each Beatitude, allowing them to remake his life in Christ!

Jesus' first recorded sermon in the Bible is a blueprint for being happy here on earth. And though His definition contains no prescriptions for acquiring cars, homes, or savings, it does require transformation and obedience. MacArthur examines Jesus' timeless definition of happiness, and explains that our reward for following Jesus' plan is citizenship in the kingdom of God- and an abiding joy that can never be taken away. Study guide and review included for individual or group study.

Before preaching the sermon on the Mount, Jesus summoned his disciples to the top of the Mount and shared the Beatitudes with them. After presenting each Beatitude, Jesus declared that they would make his followers the salt and light of this world. In The Beatitudes Bible Study, author Marlin J. Harris offers a leader’s guide to a study of the Beatitudes, lessons that will help flavor the world with his love and goodness and perpetually shine his holy light on others. The guide includes a host of resources to help a leader impart the wisdom of the Beatitudes. It includes access to PowerPoint presentations created specifically for each section, scriptural references, songs and music videos selections, group activities, discussion questions, and more. An accompaniment for Let the Beatitudes BE My Attitude in You, this guide presents a dynamic and uniquely structured group experience for believers desiring to find new spiritual heights with the Lord. It leads Christians toward the intense discovery and the personal adornment of these unexplored spiritual jewels to comprehend more completely heaven’s way of life on earth. Praise for The Beatitudes Bible Study “The author says that the ‘Beatitudes are character-building callings from the Master himself to take up a sacred quest to become the person God created you to be.’ I couldn’t agree more. Allow Marlin to guide you through this rediscovery of a special gift in scripture, the Beatitudes.” —Wanda S. Lee, National Executive Director of the Women’s Missionary Union, Southern Baptist Convention

The brand-new bestselling series from the authors of the phenomenal multi-million-selling Left Behind books. Now in paperback! Here is the first in the Biblically inspired series, The Jesus Chronicles, which brings to life the story of Jesus, told in the voices of those who knew and loved him best—the Gospel writers John, Mark, Matthew, and Luke. In this volume, readers will discover John's story, a thrilling account of the life of the man who came to fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament and to save all of humankind—and the disciple who was the last eyewitness to Jesus' glory. Readers will experience firsthand the creation of the Gospel of John as well as the Book of Revelation-Scripture that still has profound meaning for the world 2,000 years later.

In this little volume of 200 pages we have a series of dissertations on spiritual subjects, addressed especially to Christians, including thoughts on the Mountain Sermon, the Beatitudes, the Spirituality of the Law, the True Motive in Service, the Lord's Prayer, and on Not Judging but Doing. It is an earnest and affectionate plea for a higher plane of Christian living, and a more thorough and consistent Christian life and character. The writer's style is clear and simple, hut full of that eloquence and warmth of heart which is sure to reach the heart of the reader and plant there its own convictions. It is one of those books which cannot be read with indifference. It is full of an affectionate persuasiveness which is sure to make itself felt.

The beatitudes reveal to us eight qualities that bring God's blessing. As we study these qualities and integrate them into our lives, we will receive the blessing Jesus promised to his followers then and now. In this newly updated Bible study guide you can explore Scripture under John Stott's guidance.