Love… Getting Honest About Being Truthful 10 Nov 201410 Nov 2014 In my last few posts on how love is shown by truthfulness we looked at how being truthful and trustworthy (or not being so) was illustrated in the lives of…
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…
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…
Forgiveness… What We Don’t Do Is Just As Important As What We Do Do 26 Oct 201426 Oct 2014 Well, things kind of got away from me last week. Sorry about that. Here is the next post on the story of Zacchaeus… I want to show you four things…
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… 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…
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…
Learning To Be Full Of Grace And Truth. 