Snobs? Snobs! What do you think… can Christians be snobs? Hint: can and should are not the same thing. Seriously… doesn’t snobs come from pride? Now the kicker – can Christians legitimately be prideful? Kinda depends on the focus of the pride, how it’s displayed, and the results from displaying it.??? ” My fellow believers, […]
“Peter replied to Him, “Lord, if it is [really] You, command me to come to You on the water.” He said, “Come!” So Peter got out of the boat, and walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw [the effects of] the wind, he was frightened, and he began to sink,
Recently I had the honor of presenting a Devotional to a group of Prayer Coordinators. I also would like to share it with you. Let me start with a question… when you stop a moment in your busy life, do you ask yourself… do I live a meaningful life? Do remember that ‘meaningful life’ is
“Now may the God who gives endurance and who supplies encouragement grant that you be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus, .so that with one accord you may with one voice glorify and praise and honor the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” [Romans 15:5-6, AMP] However, before we get into the meat of these 2 verses,
Believe it or not, it IS easy to tell the difference between a test and a temptation or attack. Always start with checking out the source and your spirit. Do you feel embarrassed or even worse – condemned? If so… not the Lord, not how He works. Sometimes, your emotions give you a sense of
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Did you grow up knowing you needed a Savior? And ‘needed’ is spelled in capital letters. I suspect that unless your family was Pentecostal, the probability for most of we who were raised in mainstream churches didn’t. Baptists did though. Point being is that if you didn’t know… how do you know? What was your
We are told to ‘consider’, tests and challenges and trials!!! Who would ‘consider’ that? Doesn’t mean it isn’t a good thing though. But… what do we get from doing this? How do we view tests, challenges, and trials? Unfair? How are we to ‘consider’? “Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come
And when I say … ‘who’s in charge’ your mind should immediately go to – of what?! And isn’t that the point? A number of people may be the answer depending of the ‘what’. When it comes to us, our lives, the answer is often a shrugged shoulders. Or maybe the answer is – it
Definitions are important! Mandatory even. Without them we really don’t know if we are speaking the same ‘language’. You (listener/reader) may not agree with the speaker/writer’s definition, but at least you know why they are saying what they are saying. However we can never use our definitions as litmus tests. One of the fun opportunities
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In my own defense… I think we all do. What is a ‘wobble’? Typically unintentional as well as unthinking – it’s when we think, speak, or act without considering what we may be implying to the recipient (including ourselves) nor the consequences from those words or actions. Really, this is ‘no little thing’ – and
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Just write down any questions that you may have and I will get back to you in a jiffy!
