When Love Orders Our Steps
Love that is superficial and reserved for people I like and who are on my team is normal. Anybody can do that. But chain-breaking, slave-embracing, oppression-defeating kind of love is supernatural. Only Jesus can love like that. That kind of love can change your life! Not only that, that kind of love can change your family . . . your workplace . . . your school . . . our community . . . our country . . . and even the world.
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- Dec 23, 2018When Love Orders Our Steps
When Love Orders Our StepsLove that is superficial and reserved for people I like and who are on my team is normal. Anybody can do that. But chain-breaking, slave-embracing, oppression-defeating kind of love is supernatural. Only Jesus can love like that. That kind of love can change your life! Not only that, that kind of love can change your family . . . your workplace . . . your school . . . our community . . . our country . . . and even the world.
- Dec 16, 2018Hope for All Times
Hope for All TimesThere is a lot in our world that seems hopeless and, yet, we are hopeful people. Hope is such an important word. We need it, but we need the right kind of hope placed in the right source. Worldly is the desire for some good in the future and the wish that it might come true. That is common, but not enough. Christian hope, however, is the desire for God’s goodness and will for my future and the expectation that He will fulfill it. That is rare, but just what we need.
- Dec 9, 2018Looking Past Pain to Peace
Looking Past Pain to PeaceIn our world peace seems to be lacking more than it is present. But we need peace. We hunger for it. The good news is that God gives us a peace that lives and grows in us even when the whole world seems to be going against us. It’s a peace that isn’t dependent on us, but is dependent on Him. And God’s peace even makes it possible for us to pursue peace with others.
- Dec 3, 2018The Elusive Joy of Christmas
The Elusive Joy of ChristmasChristmas is all about expectations. We expect to find joy at Christmas, but sadly we look for it in the wrong places. True joy is not just a circumstantial emotion that comes and goes or something we can just conjure up on our own. True joy is an enduring state of well-being that comes from Jesus and His work in your life.
- Nov 25, 2018Living for Life in a Culture of Death
Living for Life in a Culture of DeathIn our culture, like every other culture that has gone before us, not all life is treated as valuable. Some are considered more important than others, more worthy to live, more worthy of love and concern. Not so with Christians. We believe that all life was created in the image of God and bears it’s designer’s name. That means God makes every life valuable . . . including yours, mine and the ones we don’t think should qualify.
- Nov 18, 2018Living for Unity in a World of Division
Living for Unity in a World of DivisionRacism and injustice are alive and well in the world and, sadly, it’s even alive and well amongst Christians. We often live by the values of the world instead of the values of Jesus. That is sad, but that’s not news! But Jesus shed His blood to create a world of racial diversity and harmony that produces real unity and justice. That’s the truth and the news we need to live.
- Nov 11, 2018Living Peacefully in a World of Violence
Living Peacefully in a World of ViolenceIn our world, violence is more normal than peace. That’s always been true. It probably always will be on this side of heaven. But our options aren’t just to fight the world’s way or to get run over. Instead, in Jesus we can resist evil without becoming the evil we resist.
- Nov 4, 2018Planning to Be Generous
Planning to Be GenerousJesus gave up all of His treasure in heaven in order to make you His treasure. And when you see and experience Him dying to make you His treasure, that will make Him yours. The solution to stinginess and greed is to bathe yourself in the generosity of Jesus. Because God was lovingly generous with us we can have the power to be gratefully generous with others.
- Oct 28, 2018Stewardship is a Heart Issue First
Stewardship is a Heart Issue FirstWhen it comes to stewardship, God wants something FOR you, not something FROM you. He wants you to know and practice justice, mercy and faithfulness. For that to be possible, we must know and serve Him, not money.
- Oct 21, 2018Don’t Waste Your Rest
Don’t Waste Your RestFalse anchors will let you down, but the true anchor will see you through disappointments, bad health, grief and the chaos that might be around you. Only in the true anchor of God will you find rest.
