Paradox People: Learning to Live the Beatitudes
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
As Christians strategize over cultural engagement, cultural disengagement, and cultural warfare, we can easily miss a core problem: The trouble isn’t that we’re in the world—it’s that we’re too much like the world. The solution? To pursue, by God’s grace, the paradoxical character preached by Jesus in the Beatitudes. As he explores these foundations for kingdom living, Jonathan Landry Cruse shows how the surprising course of spiritual growth leads to rich blessing in Christ.
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- Teaches how to engage with cultural issues.
- Embraces the paradoxical character preached by Jesus in the Beatitudes.
- Helps you experience rich and surprising blessing.
- Title: Paradox People: Learning to Live the Beatitudes
- Author: Jonathan Landry Cruse
- Publisher: P&R
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 156
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. Matthew, 5:1-12 › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Beatitudes › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Christianity and culture › Biblical teaching; Christian life › Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9798887791296, 9798887791302
- Resource ID: LLS:PDXPLNGLVTHBTDS
- Resource Type: text.monograph.bible-study
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-11-04T21:19:50Z
Jonathan Cruse is a native of Central Pennsylvania, where he grew up in a home that loved sports, movies, and Reformed theology. He attended Temple University in Philadelphia where he studied film for a time before graduating with a Bachelors of Arts in Communication Studies and English. Shortly after graduation, he married his lovely wife, Kerri Ann, and the two immediately headed for San Diego for Jonathan to earn his Masters of Divinity from Westminster Seminary California. They are enjoying life in Michigan with their children Jacob, Evangeline, and Caleb. Jonathan has been pastor of Community since June of 2017.
Cruse is an avid writer, and has published numerous articles, chapters, hymns, and books. He has written for The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, Core Christianity, Modern Reformation, The Gospel Coalition, and TableTalk magazine. He is author of the new worship collection Hymns of Devotion, and the books Church Membership, Sing in Exultation!, Glorifying and Enjoying God, The Christian’s True Identity: What It Means to Be in Christ, What Happens When We Worship, and The Character of Christ.