Promise Kingdom Blog

In this week's lesson (#14) from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus calls on His children to love their enemies. What a radical command! We find it hard sometimes to love even our friends, and brothers and sisters! To love those who hate us? Impossible!

This week we will be studying the Beatitudes (Lesson 13), from Matthew 5. This should be somewhat familiar territory for those who were around for our summer sermon series! It's important to remember that, while the Beatitudes teach us of God's character and give us a description of how we are to live as His people, they are not qualities that we somehow muster up on our own.

This week in Promise Kingdom the kids will study lesson twelve, Jesus healing the paralyzed man from Luke 5:17-26. As great as that miracle of healing was, the greater miracle was that Jesus had the authority to forgive sins.

As many of you know, we are studying Bunyan's, Pilgrim's Progress in adult Sunday school. This week I've been thinking about Christian's response to his family's and neighbors' effort to convince him to stay in the City of Destruction. Christian “put his fingers in his ears and ran on crying, Life! Life! Eternal life!”.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”