Love Does Not Boast
Someone who is comfortable with who they are and the skills they have or do not have does not need...
Devotion
God’s Laborers
Did you know that we are supposed to be laboring for Jesus? Luke 10 gives instructions on how we should...
Love Cheers
Love Does Not Envy! Smack dab in the middle of 1 Corinthians 13:4. Pretty self explanatory right? Let’s say it...
Sheep
Have you ever studied sheep? Have you ever been around sheep? They are not unintelligent, they can remember faces and...
Love Cares
Do you feel lonely and isolated? The most common comment people have been making to us lately about needs people...
What is kindness?
If we are going to be kind, we need to know what that means. It seems a little nebulous in...
Love Cares
1 Corinthians 13:4a Love is patient, love is kind. We are starting on our fifth month of writing about how love is...
Love Shows
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. John 13:35 When someone has...
Love Weeps
What breaks your heart? What injustice makes you angry when you see reports about it on the news? There are...
Emotions are Not Bad
Have you ever been told you need to move on or you should be over something by now? Sometimes the...
Love Weeps
One of the few times in my life so far that I feel like I heard the audible voice of...
A Party?
Continuing our theme on Love Rejoices, we wanted to address celebrating. Jesus went to parties. He performed his first miracle...
Love Rejoices!
When you love someone, you want the best for them. It is so satisfying when something great happens to someone...
Love Works
On Monday, we briefly talked about the restoration of Peter in John 21 when Jesus tells Peter three times: “If...
Love Works
We just returned from a short-term mission trip with the Kansas City Dream Center. It is fun to partner with...
Using the Gifts of the Spirit
Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy. . . . But the one...
How Does God Speak To Us?
I believe that God can speak audibly. I have heard testimonies from people I love and respect that say he...
Take it to Heart
Jesus words in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew Chapters 5-7) don’t need any help from me. We’re zeroed in...
But I Say
Jesus gave the best sermon ever recorded on why we need a savior. His words were radical and counter-cultural and...
Love Speaks Up
There are so many places where God and Jesus speak in the bible that it would be hard to narrow...
Love Speaks
Acts 2:7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that each of us hears them...
What is he listening to?
Have you ever noticed that people sure give God a lot to listen to? We have all the cases of...
Love Listens
I have a confession to make. . . sometimes I tune my kids out. I know that it is important...
Love Pauses 2
Who likes to be interrupted? Who likes having plans derailed and things cancelled or postponed? Who likes being put on...
Love Pauses
Pausing seems to be very closely related to waiting, but we are not talking about just stopping what you are...
Wait and Listen
Most of us are waiting for something from God. Either for directions or advice. The challenge in today’s busy, loud,...
I Don’t Have That
Our 5 yr old asked to go fishing and my dad told him that he would need patience to which...
Patience = Salvation
Is God really patient? Is he really waiting on us? A lie that so many of us believe is that...