Feb 26
“Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves ME… I will love him and show Myself to him” John 14:21 (NIV) Our goal isn’t just “sin management”. We shouldn’t be walking around just figuring out ways to avoid sin. Those wrongful actions, thoughts, and words will happened. We then confess […]
Feb 24
“Therefore, as God’s dearly loved, clothe yourselves with…long suffering” Colossians 3:12 Long suffering means “patient with people”. Some people just rub us the wrong way, then there are others that rub everybody the wrong way. I got a flyer in the mail advertising a seminar titled, “Toxic People: Living and working with high-conflict individuals”. I […]
Feb 20
“CALL to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know” Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV) God is asking us to pick up our ‘prayer phone’ and ask Him about our lives, to teach us, and to show us insights for living effectively. When I was a young boy […]
Feb 12
“Put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge” Colossians 3:10 (NIV) We need to be willing to think through our ways of living life. We shouldn’t just do the same things over and over just because “that’s how I’ve always done it”. We tend to develop patterns of thinking that go unchallenged. […]
Feb 10
“Do not merely listen to God’s Word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to God’s Word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror, and after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like” James 1:22-24 […]
Feb 4
“He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities… so great is His love… as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us” Psalm 103:10-12 (NIV) God isn’t out to get us, or waiting around to punish us. Some […]