Turning Your Heart Toward God A 6-week, No-Homework Bible Study

by Arthur, Kay; Lawson, David; Lawson, BJ

• ISBN13: 9780307458728
• ISBN10: 0307458725
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-20
• Publisher: WaterBrook

Summary

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus identified attitudes that bring God's favor: weeping over sin, demonstrating meekness, showing mercy, nurturing peace, and more. Some of these phrases have become so familiar that we've lost sight of their meaning.

Author Biography

PRECEPT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL, founded in 1970 by Jack and Kay Arthur, has trained millions of people to discover God's truth for themselves. The Precepts for Life radio and television programs, hosted by Kay Arthur, reach a worldwide viewing audience of over 94 million. In addition to inductive study training workshops and thousands of small-group studies across America, PMI reaches nearly 150 countries with inductive Bible studies translated into nearly 70 languages.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Study	p. v
Introduction: Turning Your Heart Toward God	p. 1
What Does It Mean to Be Blessed and to Be Poor in Spirit?	p. 3
What's the Connection Between Mourning and Blessing?	p. 23
Why Does God Bless Those Who Are Gentle?	p. 35
What Does It Look Like to Be Righteous and Merciful?	p. 53
What Is a Pure Heart and How Does It Relate to Being a Peacemaker?	p. 67
How Does Persecution Confirm Your Faith and Bring Blessing?	p. 83
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Excerpts

Certain events and moments in time have changed the course of history. A few, a precious few, have even changed the course of eternity. Take for example the birth, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. His life changed not only history but even eternity.
 
Jesus’ delivery of the Sermon on the Mount is one of those pivotal events. In what is now undoubtedly the most famous sermon in the world Jesus took righteousness to a whole new level, all in one fell swoop. He defined religion in a way that was then, and is still
today, countercultural, radical, and even revolutionary.
 
The sermon itself can be preached word-for-word in eighteen minutes, but you could spend a lifetime studying it and never completely search out its depths. The introduction alone—the subject of numerous books, essays, and discussions—is so powerful, so inspiring that it carries its own name exclusive of the Sermon on the Mount:The Beatitudes. In these few verses Jesus introduces the core belief system that
changed the world.
 
As you study what it means to be blessed of God and how those blessings are manifest in our lives, you will see that this is the practical side of living in a real world. As we live out the blessings, we become a light shining in the darkness, a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden. We become ambassadors for the Son of God.
 
We then have the opportunity to impact world— all because we studied the introduction to a two thousand-year-old sermon.