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A Powerful New Perspective on Unity
Disunity is growing. Unity seems elusive today, even within the Body of Christ. Over and over Paul reminds us about the importance of unity in his letters and yet there is still a growing disunity among Christians. That could be due to a misunderstanding about what...
Beware of Self-Satisfaction With Your Christian Life
“Enough” of a Christian doesn’t mean “enough” with God. The self-satisfaction we can feel as Christians is killing us because we can really believe that whatever we do for God is good enough. We can feel confident that since we’re probably enough of a Christian for...
Why Aren’t We Believing in the Truth of God?
How is it that we pray, we go to church, we sit in Bible studies, belt out Christian songs and yet we still do not trust God? How come we strive after all the things we know God asks of us in the easy times and yet when things get hard or sad or ugly or down right...
How To See Irritations As Opportunities To Reflect Jesus
Irritations are opportunities. That was my big take-a-way from what Lindsey Papantoniou shared this past Saturday during our FB Live. I have an endless list of things that irritate me daily! It can start as simple as someone leaving 2 drops of lemonade in the jug in...
For Such a Time as This…
I feel compelled to put this reminder out there: ALL of the ills that encompass 2020 do not escape God’s omniscience and omnipotence. He is still all-knowing and all-powerful! So, the world should not be experiencing a bunch of prune-faced “Christians” filled with...
Make Sure Jesus is Defining Your Identity Right Now: Do you identify with the world or Christ?
Our identity is defined by something. So, when people look at you, who do you reflect? If someone snooped on your social media, where would they say your allegiance lay? When you talk about people or causes or politics or Covid or whatever, is it Jesus in you that’s...
The Ugly Truth About Division and the Church
Is anyone else struggling with the intense disagreements and division all around us? It’s on the news, on social media, in public square, our schools and even in our churches. It seems non-stop, in-your-face, relentless. It’s every-where-you-turn! Ironically though,...
The One Thing You Can Never Leave
It’s a tough time to do ministry. I’m not whining about it. It just is what it is. For a long time, the uphill battle was trying to convince the “decided to be disciples.” If you encouraged women to read their Bibles, they left the group. If you asked women to pray...
Will You Make Time for “the one”?
What if each day you asked God to show you the one? The one woman He wanted you to interact with that day – whether through a smile, hug, a kind word, text, phone call or gesture? You could be Jesus in disguise to the people around you. To be ready for the one, you...
How to Overcome the Down & Dirty of Reconciliation
Followers of Christ are called to be reconcilers. The pages of Scripture are replete with examples and commands of how our reconciliation with God is supposed to come to bear on the realities and people surrounding us. That’s what all of those “one another” passages...
Our Flaws Aren’t Supposed to Stop Us
When I think about Jesus’ disciples, it always makes me smile. They are such a perfect picture of how everyone can be used by God and how everyone is called by God to do the mission He has set out for us to do. They were all outcasts, really. No one had prestige or...
Do You “Smell” Like Heaven or Hell?
Jesus isn’t saving you so that when you die your soul can go to heaven. Good gravy, help us Lord! Jesus is saving you NOW to be conformed to His image NOW, so you can reproduce the culture of Heaven on the earth NOW (that’s called sanctification in the Bible). You’re...