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- Serpents & Doves…
In Matthew 10:5-15, Jesus is found equipping and briefing the apostles to serve Him by going to the “lost sheep of the house of Israel” (V6). I wonder if the “lost sheep” would have agreed to that title?
But then (in V16) Jesus scares His disciples by portraying a caricature of them, not sheep amongst other lost sheep, but rather sheep in the midst of wolves. No warm-fuzzies there…
Jesus prescribes the way to live in the second part of the verse…”be wise as serpents and innocent [gentle] as doves“. Here lies the crux: to operate in a life [...] - Be Kind
Ephesians 4:32, Be kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
This should seem so obvious but it is something that we often fail to do. On our youth trip this past week I found myself often pulling kids aside and sharing this verse with them because we can sometimes be just downright rotten for no good reason. Or maybe it is to get a laugh at someone’s expense, or to elevate oneself, but it is just foolish. Let us be kind toward one another, not using our words to beat each other up, but [...] - ADOPTION!
Yesterday, I was sitting at a local park with my wife and kids as my son (Josiah) was in baseball practice. Something very amazing caught my attention from the corner of my eye. I noticed a boy around the age of 3 interacting with a family that was clearly not of the same nationality. They were riding their bikes, playing games, and laughing. It was breath taking to see how these folks loved each other, cared for each other, and engaged with each other. I began to say to myself “I wonder where the mom [...] - Prayer
As we have been going through Luke Wednesday nights I am constantly brought back to the point of the importance of prayer. Time and time again we read Jesus breaking away to pray. If Jesus saw the importance of prayer why do we often neglect it? We are good at the tangibles, doing things that we can see progress such as daily Bible reading, tracking through a devotional book, or listening to a sermon series. But to get down on our knees and pray, to do something that there might not be an immediate result that is so against our [...] - Quality
When did busyness become the gold star that it now is today? The mantra of today’s socio-economic world seems to be “If you aren’t busy, you’re dead.” Yet why is that so?
How “busy” we are has become the sole criterion by which we assess the quality of our lives. But I believe that if we are honest with ourselves, the majority of us desire a time of quality rather than a quantity of time. Yet we have substituted the quality of our time for its quantity. We never have enough time. We stay up [...] - Complete archive
