Be Known By Your Love
How did Jesus say people would know we are His followers? Was it by Facebook comments? Was it by how many times we could call someone we disagree with an “idiot”? “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:35 We are supposed to be known by […]
What Makes An Invisible God Visible?
We need God’s help more than ever in His church and world. God has been dealing so deeply with me about this very issue. How I have failed in this and need Him more and more in my life. How will the world know Him? How do we, yes I said we, make this invisible […]
Sadly Some Just Love Controversy
Love is the identifier the listening and watching world should know us by. “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one […]
We Build Walls Not Bridges
You won’t see signs saying, “My tribe is the problem.” God is wants us to build bridges and not walls. God is working to break down the barriers that separate us from one another. “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are […]
What God Saw in a Murderer
Man looks at the outside and sees failure and weakness as God looks at the inside and sees wisdom and grace, justice and integrity, mercy and goodness, and a hope born in the Spirit of Christ. He sees the vulnerabilities and abilities of each and every one of us as His child. There are endless […]
I Was So Quick To Judge
Sometimes we’re quicker to judge than to comfort. Sometimes criticism often comes more quickly to us than compassion. We yell at our children for doing the same things we did as kids. We think there’s little excuse for being poor and have no sympathy for those who struggle to pay their bills. We scorn those […]
What Is Love?
Well, there are a lot of things that we call love that don’t rise to the level of what love IS and what love DOES! Here are just a few examples: *Tolerating things that are wrong in the eyes of God may create a comfortable surface peace, but it isn’t what love does. *Saying, “It’s […]
God Does Not See With Human Eyes
“The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7) God does not see with human eyes and human intuition. For the most part man only sees the outward, but the Lord sees the inside of each of […]
No One Wants To Waste His Life
Perhaps little time remains to say and do what you’ve left unsaid and undone. Perhaps you grimace to look back on a life mostly spent and wonder, “What have I done?” or, “Where did it go?” This is the bed you made; so many petals have already fallen. You are left gripping the thorny stems […]
An Expected End- Jeremiah 29:11
I pray this really encourages you as you read one of the most famous and favorite verses in all of Scripture. “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” (Jer 29:11) The word “expected” and comes from […]