the Beatitudes

For our Fall sermon series on the Beatitudes, here are some resources we’ve collected. We will continue to add to this, so check back often!

These Seven Steps to Peacemaking were encouraged in the sermon preached on October 20th, 2025.

STEP 1: Affirm your identity and vocation in Jesus. Say, I am a peacemaker. By grace, I am a child of God, we are sons and daughters of the Author of shalom, sisters and brothers of the Prince of peace.
STEP 2: Acknowledge any resistance to God that you feel in your hearts. Ask God to remove the resistance, kindle your faith, so that you can let God be God.
STEP 3: Acknowledge anger: anger towards others, anger towards self, and anger towards God. Invite Him to heal the wounds which have caused the anger.
STEP 4: Acknowledge fear. Fear holds us back from experiencing peace and making peace. Acknowledge any fear and ask Jesus to overcome it.
STEP 5: Say a new and fresh “amen” to the Gospel. It is indeed time - time for the kingdom of God to come near. Reaffirming the Gospel brings orientation, revives perspective, and instills hope.
STEP 6: Ask for courage - courage to follow Jesus in the way of His cross and in the way of His peace making through sacrifice.
STEP 7: Pray for patience in peacemaking. For peace rarely comes all at once but is realized over time, little by little. Like our heavenly Father whose redemptive peacemaking reaches back to the dawn of creation, our peacemaking unfolds incrementally, working in and through conflict and brokenness and strife, by the grace of God.