Love… Lessons on Truthfulness (or the Lack Thereof) in King Saul 9 Nov 20149 Nov 2014 Contrast the truthfulness of Samuel that we saw in my last post with King Saul. Saul was handpicked by Samuel and by the Lord to be Israel's first king. We…
Love… Lessons on Truthfulness in Samuel 7 Nov 20147 Nov 2014 Love is shown by truthfulness. The importance of truthfulness—honesty and trustworthiness—is one of the main lessons in the book of Samuel. 1 Samuel opens with the story of Samuel's birth.…
Love… Being Good about Being Good 3 Nov 20143 Nov 2014 One of the characteristics of Christian love is goodness. My last two posts have looked at what that means. Goodness is conducting ourselves towards others in the same way that…
Love… What Does it Mean to Be Good? 2 Nov 20142 Nov 2014 If we are going to be like God, if we are going to love like God, we are going to have to people who love to do good. Love is…
Grace… Love Is Shown by Gratitude 29 Oct 201429 Oct 2014 John 1:14 says that Jesus came from the Father full of grace and truth. Full of grace and full of truth. In other words Jesus' glory was that He both…
Forgiveness… What Do Forgiving People Look Like? 28 Oct 201428 Oct 2014 Love is shown by forgiveness. How can we become people who forgive others as Jesus has forgiven us? What can we do? In this concluding post on forgiveness, I want…
Books… Some Sunday Morning Fenelon 26 Oct 2014 "To love You with an eye only to the love You can bestows not to lose oneself in You, but to lose You in self!" Fenelon, "Christian Counsel" in The…
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…
Grace… Grace Makes Us Humble AND Confident? Yup! 19 Oct 201419 Oct 2014 Last week I began a series of posts asking the question "What does love look like?" John 1:14 says that Jesus came from the Father full of grace and truth.…
Grace… What Good Is It to Be Humble? 15 Oct 201415 Oct 2014 Why should you want to be humble? What are the benefits of humility? Well, first if all we should want to be humble because Jesus is humble. He said, Come…
Learning To Be Full Of Grace And Truth. 