The Blessed Life
A 90-Day Devotional Through the Teachings and Miracles of Jesus
Imagine how your life might change if you followed Jesus up that Galilean hillside, hearing His most famous Sermon for yourself as you sat in the tall grass. Imagine how the world might change if you followed Him down the mountain, reaching your arms out as He did to a harvest field desperate for His touch.
With accessible, warm, and down-to-earth writing, you don’t have to imagine these things, for beloved author and Bible teacher Kelly Minter brings to life the teachings and healings of Jesus in vivid color. Sharing her own heart along the way, Kelly offers historical elements of Jesus’s day and references the original language when illuminating. The Blessed Life is for anyone willing to take a thoughtful 90-day journey through the mind, heart, and work of Jesus, so they might know Him more deeply and reflect Him more fully. Go up the mountain to learn.
Go down the mountain and walk accordingly. You’ll never be the same.
- Opening Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1: The Teachings of Jesus
- Day 1: Matthew’s Purposeful Pen
- Day 2: The People on the Hillside
- Day 3: What Is the Kingdom of Heaven?
- Day 4: Jesus, the Teacher
- Day 5: What It Means to Be Blessed
- Day 6: The Bless-eds
- Day 7: Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
- Day 8: Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
- Day 9: Blessed Are the Meek
- Day 10: Blessed Are the Hungry and Thirsty
- Day 11: Blessed Are the Merciful
- Day 12: Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
- Day 13: Blessed Are the Peacemakers
- Day 14: Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted
- Day 15: Blessed Are the Insulted
- Day 16: Salt of the Earth
- Day 17: Remaining Salty
- Day 18: Light of the World
- Day 19: Light That Reflects Upon Our Father
- Day 20: Jesus, the Fulfillment of the Law
- Day 21: The Sacred Law
- Day 22: A Greater Righteousness
- Day 23: Cutting the Root of Anger
- Day 24: Go and Reconcile
- Day 25: Loving People from the Heart
- Day 26: Be Ruthless with Your Sin
- Day 27: The Gift of Marriage
- Day 28: Tell the Truth
- Day 29: Going Beyond Getting Even
- Day 30: Love Your Enemies
- Day 31: Being Whole
- Day 32: Giving for the Right Reasons
- Day 33: Praying Like God’s Beloved Children
- Day 34: Pray Like This
- Day 35: Our Daily Bread
- Day 36: Forgive Us As We Forgive
- Day 37: Let Us Not Be Overwhelmed by Evil
- Day 38: Fasting Not for Applause
- Day 39: Where to Store Your Treasure
- Day 40: Where Is Your Heart?
- Day 41: Generosity and a Lot of Light
- Day 42: A Good Master and a Terrible One
- Day 43: Consider the Birds
- Day 44. Would You Look at Those Flowers
- Day 45: The Weakness of Worry
- Day 46: What to Seek First
- Day 47: What It Means to Judge
- Day 48: Of Beams and Splinters
- Day 49: Of Pearls and Pigs
- Day 50: Our God Is Relational
- Day 51: Our God Is Responsive
- Day 52: Our God Is Good
- Day 53: The Golden Rule
- Day 54: The Road That Leads to Life
- Day 55: Who Is True?
- Day 56: Doing God’s Will
- Day 57: Of Rock and Sand
- Day 58: A Teacher Like No Other
- Day 59: The New and Greater Moses
- Part 2: The Miracles of Jesus
- Day 60: To Be Made Clean
- Day 61: To Not Be Alone
- Day 62: His Power and Compassion
- Day 63: A Place at the Banquet
- Day 64: A Woman’s Healing and Calling
- Day 65: Jesus Makes a Way
- Day 66: He Took and Carried
- Day 67: An Overeager Disciple
- Day 68: An Undereager Disciple
- Day 69: Follow Me
- Day 70: Jesus Is God
- Day 71: Across the Lake
- Day 72: Wellness on Jesus’s Terms
- Day 73: Our Collective Faith
- Day 74: The Greatest Miracle of All
- Day 75: Authority to Forgive Sins
- Day 76: Get Up and Follow
- Day 77: Are You Sick or Well?
- Day 78: Getting through the Window
- Day 79: Patches and Wineskins
- Day 80: Jesus and Our Timetables
- Day 81: Taking Away Our Shame
- Day 82: A Resurrection Story
- Day 83: The Blind with Eyes to See
- Day 84: Matters of Faith
- Day 85: We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before
- Day 86: Full Circle
- Day 87: Our Compassionate Savior
- Day 88: The Harvest Field
- Day 89: When Listeners Become Laborers
- Day 90: Life in the Kingdom
- Closing Credits