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The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character is unavailable, but you can change that!

The beatitudes reveal to us eight qualities that bring God’s blessing: meekness and mercy, poorness in spirit and purity of heart, mourning and hunger, peacemaking and persecution. Jesus highlighted these to offer both encouragement and instruction on living distinctly as his followers in a world with values much different from God’s. As we study these qualities and integrate them into our lives,...

underfoot. Isn’t it the tough, the overbearing who succeed in the struggle for existence? Even the ancient Israelites had to fight for their inheritance, although the Lord their God gave them the Promised Land. But the condition on which we enter our spiritual inheritance in Christ is not might but meekness, for everything is ours if we are Christ’s (1 Corinthians 3:22). Summary: Meekness is a true view of oneself, expressed in attitude and conduct with respect to others. This makes us gentle, humble,
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