{"product_id":"the-seven-deadly-sins-with-the-seven-beatitudes-spoken-by-jesus","title":"The Seven Deadly Sins with the Seven Beatitudes Spoken by Jesus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eOur world is charged with both the grandeur of God and the void of his absence. The seven deadly sins are the force causing that hole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are at work in each of us. They decimate our relationships, our souls and our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese deadly sins often seem pleasing and good for gaining what we desire, but they are thoroughly poisonous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversely, the Beatitudes are Jesus' pictures of a restored creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Beatitudes introduced what Jesus said to his earliest followers about a life strong and fruitful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fact, the Beatitudes give us a glimpse of a world empty of evil and filled to the edges with God's life. Looking at the Beatitudes and the seven deadly sins in turn, we see two paths, two sets of invitations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth call to deep places within us to come and taste. Both invite us to take up residence. Both present themselves as life as it actually is. But only one will draw us further into reality. And only one will make us happy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Of the many, many books about the Gospels, or about Jesus, or about Christian morality, only one in a thousand gives us a real breakthrough, a new 'big picture'. Most are just nice little candles on the cake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven is a bonfire. It's not just good; it's striking. It doesn't just say all the things you've heard a thousand times before. And yet it's totally in sync with both the saints and the scholars.\"--Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy at Boston College, and author of over forty-five books, including Fundamentals of the Faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Beatitudes of Jesus stand in sharp contrast to what ancient believers identified as the \u003cstrong\u003eSeven Deadly Sins\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth promise us life at its fullest---but only one delivers. Setting the Beatitudes one by one against the Sins, Seven reveals how the Beatitudes point us from the nothingness that devours to the blessedness that restores and fills.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0310278171    \u003cstrong\u003eEAN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780310278177\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53458065424750,"sku":"1407","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0985\/3508\/0302\/files\/b7c7c2cf-8d3047_39fe12ecd27845fa8a99f19888ef359f_mv2.jpg?v=1773895357","url":"https:\/\/religioustextbook.com\/products\/the-seven-deadly-sins-with-the-seven-beatitudes-spoken-by-jesus","provider":"Religioustextbook.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}