Most people getting married this month love each other before getting acquainted (eros – desire). Believers can love each other before getting acquainted (agape – sacrifice). Most people (over half) getting married this month won’t love each other after becoming acquainted (eros – selfishness). Believers can love each other more after becoming acquainted, because they learn weaknesses and needs and […]
Are you more likely to forward a text or an email that is short and funny, or one that is long and life-imparting? Whatever your answer to that is, why is it the case? What do the people in your Contacts list need? Your answer should not be influenced by how may diplomas or licenses you have. Or don’t. If […]
If I am sick and not getting healed too quickly, someone may tell me to go to a physician. “God gave us the medicine.” What sort of label should be placed on me if I prefer something supernatural? Jesus did not tell the people He sent out with instructions on how to bring the Kingdom that sounded like, “Try to […]
Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.(Hebrews 11:6 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®) But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith, and everything that is not from faith is sin. (Romans 14:23 […]
It is pitiful how many people declare they do not trust the Bible’s information and instruction because it was “written by men,” but who are tuned to CNN, expecting truth. Even worse, some are reading horoscopes and fortune cookies. Actually, maybe horoscopes and fortune cookies aren’t worse than CNN. Anyway, read the Book. Get Truth. Get Wisdom. “Get wisdom, get […]
Alexander the “Great” conquered his enemies with knowledge and power. Jesus conquered His enemies (specifically you and me) by love and grace. It might be very wise to take our human enemies to Jesus in the spirit of intercession, and to ask Him to love them until He is victorious. “Give to everyone who asks from you, and from one […]
If studying theology (logy – words; theo – about God) was sufficient work to make us know Jesus, we wouldn’t need the Holy Spirit in our lives. The book is usually better than the movie, but neither the book nor the movie are sufficient process for the development of a real relationship. Having a developing relationship with Jesus is how […]
“I give you a new commandment: love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another. By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®) Suppose the only real evidence that we are disciples of Jesus is that we […]
When we work with Jesus, obeying His Spirit when He works in us to will and to do what pleases Jesus, we get results. When we work against Jesus, resisting the baptisms and circumstances in which He wants to mature us and prove Himself, we get consequences. One person gives freely, yet gains more; another withholds what is right, only […]
Water that is in motion is working. Either it is causing erosion, by which it can change landscape or the path of a river, or it is harnessed and its energy converted to working for humans. If it condenses as rain and falls on the ground, it causes life to be produced in seeds and plants. If it sits still, […]