Christian Living Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Part 3 3 Oct 20143 Oct 2014 To practice the grace of peacemaking is to practice love. It is practicing love because the love of God is expressed to us in the offer of peace through the…
Christian Living Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Part 2 2 Oct 20142 Oct 2014 John 1:14 says that Jesus came from the Father full of grace and truth. Learning to live like Jesus or living for God through Christ means learning to be full…
Christian Living… Spurring Lessons, Part 2 10 Sep 201410 Sep 2014 Yesterday I shared the first two ways in which we can spur one another on toward love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24). The first was to live it, to be…
Christian Living… Spurring Lessons, Part 1 9 Sep 20149 Sep 2014 God wants us to spur one another on toward love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24). How do we do that? How do we entice and motivate each other toward love…
Christian Living… Love, Good Deeds, and Apple Trees 8 Sep 20148 Sep 2014 One of the ways we show that we are living for God through Christ is by spurring one another toward love and good deeds. Love and deeds are inseparably connected.…
Christian Living… Spurring One Another? 7 Sep 20147 Sep 2014 This week I am going to finish up my series on the one anothering passages in the New Testament. There are still several more that I did not get to.…
Christian Living Do Not Slander One Another, Part 2 2 Sep 20142 Sep 2014 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the…
Christian Living Got Beans? 29 Aug 201429 Aug 2014 I think encouraging one another is important enough to give you an assignment to practice it this week. Your assignment, your mission—if you choose to accept it—is to only speak…
Christian Living Are You Encouraging? 28 Aug 201428 Aug 2014 If there is anything I have been learning lately, it is just how important being encouraging is. So much of the Christian life lies in encouraging one another. So as…
Christian Living Unpacking Encouragement 26 Aug 201426 Aug 2014 The words "encourage" and "encouragement" occur more times in 1 Thessalonians than in any other of Paul's letters. In this short 5 chapter letter it comes up six times. Because…