Grace… “Humility” Is Not a Four Letter Word! 14 Oct 201414 Oct 2014 People who are full of grace are humble people. Humility is one of the central qualities of a person who is living in, growing through, and giving out God's grace.…
Grace… Humility Is an Attitude 13 Oct 201413 Oct 2014 What does love, the kind of love God has for us and wants us to have for others, look like? Take a look at John 1:14-18 (NIV). The Word became…
What I've Been Learning Given Comfort to Give Comfort 6 Oct 20146 Oct 2014 I recently met with a person who was having a hard time dealing with the pain and challenge of having a grown child with mental illness. As I listened to…
Books… Peace Comes Through Simplicity and Obedience 3 Oct 20143 Oct 2014 It's Fénelon Friday! LETTER 5: Peace Comes Through Simplicity and Obedience Learn to cultivate peace. And you can do this by learning to turn a deaf ear to your own…
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…
Exegesis… Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Part 1 30 Sep 201430 Sep 2014 In the opening verses of Matthew 5, the crowds were approaching Jesus and His disciples. Jesus knew that the temptation was going to be there for His disciples to get…
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… 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.…