Forgiveness… Finding Forgiveness in Zacchaeus 22 Oct 201422 Oct 2014 As I was getting ready to put together the next series of posts I realized that I had a series of posts about a year ago that said much what…
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… 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…
Forgiveness… Bear with One Another, Part 3 6 Aug 20146 Aug 2014 What makes a good buttress? How do we need to be growing in order to be bearing with one another in love? In closing post, let me point out four…
A Tale of Three Women… What Is It About “A Tale of Three Women?” 16 Jun 201416 Jun 2014 This past January I gave a message at my church titled A Tale of Three Women on Luke 7:36-50, which tells the story of Jesus having dinner at Simon the…
Christian Living Be Devoted to One Another, Part 3 5 Jun 20145 Jun 2014 Be devoted to one another in love (Romans 12:2). Are we? That is the question isn't it? Is that the kind of devotion that we have for one another? Having…
Grace… Lessons from Lie to Me 17 May 201417 May 2014 In a lawsuit the first to speak seems right, until someone comes forward and cross-examines (Proverbs 18:17, NIV). Lie to Me was a TV show on the FOX network that…
Love Love Covers Over All Wrongs? 8 May 20148 May 2014 Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs—Proverbs 10:12, NIV. It is easy to see how hatred stirs up conflict. But love covers all wrongs? What does that…
Spiritual Formation… Truth Doesn’t Mean Much Without Trust 6 May 20146 May 2014 The past 24 hours has had a reoccurring theme: trust, or rather, the lack thereof. A daughter of mine is struggling with trust issues with her teachers at school, my…
Spiritual Formation… Lessons from Rats 5 May 20145 May 2014 Yesterday when I got home from work, my daughter Anna came to the door to meet me. She was in tears. Her pet rats, Dawn and Midnight, had both died.…
Learning To Be Full Of Grace And Truth. 