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What Jesus Meant: The Beatitudes and a Meaningful Life
What Jesus Meant The Beatitudes and a Meaningful Life Author:Erik Kolbell The Beatitudes challenge our habitual expectations; they shake up our usual criteria of normalcy and present a new view of reality. While sounding peaceful enough, they are at heart profound and passionate, full of insights and authority for those of us prepared, in these precarious times, to reevaluate matters at the very core of our individual... more » and collective lives. Here, in What Jesus Meant, Erik Kolbell demonstrates how the eight pillars of the Beatitudesmeekness, empathy, righteousness, peace, persecution, purity, poverty, and simplicityremain valuable codes of conduct for our busy, anxious lives. With engaging writing, he masterfully shows the timeless value in these poetic and paradoxical words from Jesus and how they offer relief and direction in our all too-confusing world.« less