Sermons on Beatitudes

The Counter-Culture of the Kingdom Introduction:  Friends, if you were asked to name four categories of people whom God loves and blesses, and four categories of people whom God hates and condemns, what would your lists look like? I tried it.  My list of the top four kinds of people God blesses includes: people who pray a lot, people who serve faithfully, people who demonstrate compassion to others, and people who are generous.  Now if I worked at it, I could come up…