But he gives us more grace. This is why it says, “God stands against the proud, but favors the humble.” – James 4:6 As a writer, one of the things I constantly try to guard against is the trite, the gratuitous, and the cliché – especially when talking about experiences that are serious, or heart-wrenching. …
People online without filters are more than “bless their heart” embarrassing, they do critical damage to relationships – and relationships define the way we live together.
Are we going to share this Good News by living full, rich, invitational lives? Or are we going to demonstrate the ineffectuality of faith, and give the world one more reason to turn away?
The mystery, the deep spirituality of communion, comes not from the hands of the priest but from the hearts of the people.
The Presbyterian Church is alive, strong, blessed by God, full with the Holy Spirit, passionate about following Jesus, rooted in scripture, and joyful about proclaiming the good news to the world!
As Christian men we love to put on The Whole Armor of God – and strut around in it sometimes – but we’re so-so when it comes to the Fruit of the Spirit.
God’s view erases all of the petty, ill-fitting, bigoted, legalistic, reactive, “I know better than God”, hypercritical narrowness of what I like to call, “Lightly Christianized religiosity.”
today I’d like to invite the rest of us – the adults who tend to complicate the message – to allow the beautiful blessedness of God’s wide-open invitation to light our countenances too.
“Everybody who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise builder who built a house on bedrock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the wind blew and beat against that house. It didn’t fall because it was firmly set on bedrock. But everybody who hears these words of mine and …
God is not interested in embarrassing us so much as equipping us, empowering us, emboldening us, and employing us to do the work of ministry Jesus has called us to do.
