God gave us minds. God gave us free willErgo and thus… He expected us to use them. I also suspect that He expected us to use logic and compassion in our applications. Those 2 standards are not incompatible. Then we face the knotty problem of how do we resolve the issue of obeying those in […]
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Do you know if you are congruent? Do you listen to what you say… and see what you do? Do you like you… despite your ‘failings’? How do you know all that? Can one tell from your words and behavior? Are your words and behavior like shifting sand… all over the place, spilling over, not
Being blindsided… happen to you? I suspect we all get blindsided at times… by ourselves as well as by others and other types of ‘triggers’. To be perfectly clear – being ‘surprised’ is not the same as being blindsided. Blindsided is always unbidden, unexpected, and not wanted. Sometimes it takes our breath away, sometimes it
I realize that we often hear, at the end of the year, that it’s been a/an (choose your adjective) year. When it is 2020 that we are talking about, that ‘WHAT’ is far more than we realized when we began 1/1/2020. It is difficult, not impossible, to find the ‘good’ in the year. But the
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Remember this song? The chorus gives us one lifestyle option to consider. Do you try and practice the thought? “One day at a time sweet Jesus that’s all I’m asking from you Give me the strength to do everyday what I have to do Yesterday’s gone sweet Jesus and tomorrow may never be mine So for my sake teach me
Have you ever thought about what you can do to show the Lord just how important He is… just how grateful you are…? I don’t know about you, but I tend to get a tad frustrated because I can’t think of what I can do. Then one day I realized that I was looking at a more
One of the more favorite current sayings is: “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. I’m not positive that we give enough ‘credit’ to that first step. It’s not just important, it’s critical. Where are you going? Do you understand your what, why, when, where, how? Do you allow ‘detours’ in
“… But there is a [true, loving] friend who [is reliable and] sticks closer than a brother.” (Proverbs 18:24, AMP) I would propose that the one person in the Triune God that we know the least is the Holy Spirit and His work. We really shouldn’t since His work is ongoing in our lives each day. And like the Father and Son,
What do you do when scripture appears to be diametrically opposite of what you believe/think? Who’s the authority… has the last word? Hint… it isn’t you. No one possesses all the wisdom, all the authority – knows it all – except God. And how does He make this known to us? Through His Word! Let me share
You, Scripture: diametrically opposed? Read More »
Let’s be honest. We sometimes surprise ourselves at how we react, which can be ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Sometimes our reaction demonstrates grace and other times you’d rather forget what you did/said. Also, there are times we are surprised at a reaction from someone else that seems totally ‘out of character’ with who we think they
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