If we’re going to enjoy loving relationships, we have to learn to forgive. Hurt follows relationship like night follows day. We can’t deeply connect with another without hurt. In fact, the closer the relationship, the deeper the hurt. But forgiveness seems so hard. Maybe it […]
Month: December 2011
Fellowship
1 We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life. 2 This one who is life itself was revealed to us, […]
Positive Christianity
We are called to live a Christian life. It’s all about relationship, vertical, with our God, and horizontal, with mankind. If we are to spread the gospel, we need to talk less and live more. This life requires that we make vital decisions: to know, […]
Go Now and Go All the Way
Our emotions should not determine our direction, but they can get us off the couch and can motivate us to do all that needs doing. The unemotional tend to over think everything and accomplish nothing. If we learn to trust our emotions and channel them […]
Christian Emotion
Jesus wept. John 11:35 What place does emotion have in the Christian life? Ask that question and the answers will run from a prominent place to no place at all. Jesus displayed emotion. He cried. He was angry. He was tender with little children. So […]
A New Commandment
1 John 4:18 New King James Version (NKJV) 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. This new commandment about love was new in so many ways. […]
Love is Action, Not Emotion
9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Yesterday we remembered the attack on Pearl Harbor. This atrocity ignited the “Greatest Generation” into action. Don’t believe for a moment […]
Christianity is not trying harder; Christianity is trusting Jesus.
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35 J […]