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"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God" (Matthew 5:9). We welcome Salt House community member Arlene Smith to the microphone to share about this beloved beatitude.

What does it mean for Jesus to mantle us as ‘blessers’. Storyteller, initiated Elder and fly fisherman Jim Anderson will draw us into Jesus’ sermon on the mount and explore moving from ‘container to content’ in God’s kingdom of love. 

Purity in the Bible is such a complicated concept. And we probably have a lot of baggage around this word. So when Jesus blesses "the pure of heart" what does "purity" mean to Jesus? Join us Sunday for another beatitude, where Pastor Ryan will explore this blessing for the "pure of heart."

Sometimes Jesus uses really vivid language to evoke the senses and draw us in. That's what this next blessing is all about--hunger and thirst. It brings out intense, bodily sensations. But who are the hungry and the thirsty? What blessing is unique to them? How might we live this blessing our lives?

We live in a culture that so values the cerebral, the academic, the thinker... but not so much the feeler. And yet Jesus blesses our tender, squishy, messy emotions. Jesus is a feeler and encourages us to feel too. But where is the blessing in that? How can sadness and grief be good? Let's explore how complicated mourning and comfort are this Sunday.

Every preacher’s got just one sermon and Jesus isn’t an exception to that rule. This week we hear Jesus’ big idea about what God is up to and what the meek have to do with it? (What in the world IS a ‘Meek’ anyways?!)