What a ride! Thanks for 5 complete years of T2G. And yet we are NEVER finished being loved by God and loving Him back as we love others. T2G now and into forever!
Sometimes life feels like your running across the Sahara barefoot looking for water. May God help us FINISH WELL.
Loving others doesn't have to be HARD all the time. It's not just BIG INCONVENIENT acts we don't want to do but know Jesus wants us to. Loving can be FUN!
What would throwing darts at your enemies look like for you? The cold shoulder? Gossip? Mocking? Being passive aggressive? Other?
It's hard to love someone with Alzheimer's Disease. How do you love someone who doesn't remember you? Let's talk about a difficult side of T2G today.
An ugly person is a person all about himself or herself. And it's worse when it's a person of God.
Is the Bible God's Word or Human Words? How to the two interact? If we don't get this right, we quickly fall into heresy.
Sometimes we read a Bible verse, and it's directed to us, but we're not sure HOW to do it. One of those might be for you "be filled with the Spirit." What does that mean and how do we do it? Let's talk!
The people we hang around and allow access to our heart and mind WILL shape us into the kind of people we will become, so choose wisely!
When we measure success FORWARD we are alway reaching and never grasping, we are in the GAP. When we measure success BACKWARDS we are seeing how far we've come and we live in the GAIN.
How can something so small be so very dangerous? Yet that is the power of YOUR tongue!
Where's the line between caring and intruding? How can we love without sticking our nose where it doesn't belong. Some practice steps today.
Oh the church, the bride of Jesus, the people of God. So beautiful and so broken. May be be a window, not a mirror.
It's so wonderful when God sends just the right person at the right time to us. May He help us appreciate His provision.
Expectations and make us or break us. They effect our attitudes and actions and can express or repress our ability to love.
How would you finish the sentence: YOU ARE WHAT YOU....?" The Bible gives us a clear answer and some clear instructions when it comes to what determines what we become. Listen in!
How would you define "faith?" If you think it's just what you think, you've misdefined it and are missing the point entirely.
There's some stuff in the Bible that is weird to us. It's strange because it's written to them, not us--in a different culture, under a different covenant. BUT there's some good nuggets for us to enjoy and apply--including your ear, your thumb and your big toe!
Is it okay for Christians to "love themselves?" Well, yes, of course--rightly understand and applied, that's exactly how we are able to love others.
There IS a moment when transformation starts. Do you know when that is? Let me tell you today.