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The Blessed Life (Matthew 5.1–12)
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The Sermon on the Mount begins with a description of the blessed life, and it doesn’t look how you might expect. In the first talk of our new series, Steve Jones unpacks the beatitudes, and considers what it looks like to live a flourishing life in the Kingdom of God.
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