Thank You, James: A Parting Gift from the Brother of Jesus
We don’t typically wander away from God with a willful decision. We wander away from God when we willingly lose ourselves in the shifting shadows and seductive shades of sin
We don’t typically wander away from God with a willful decision. We wander away from God when we willingly lose ourselves in the shifting shadows and seductive shades of sin
Elders are men and women whose lives exude the holiness of Jesus because all of their confidence is in Jesus and not in themselves.
Through the course of history, the followers of Jesus have spent far more time combating evil than trying to explain it.
Far from a passive approach, waiting on the Lord holds the source of our greatest possibilities.
Repentance is not about keeping my self-indulgence in check. It’s about learning to give myself away.
If we can come to own the the truth about our life, our life will become an ever-increasing glorious expression of the truth of the love of God.
If I am in a conversation and another person is being slandered and I choose to be silent, I am complicit in the slander.
Humility, the signal quality of the mind of Christ, is not something that happens in your head. It’s a visceral reality. It’s action based.
The human spirit, for which God jealously longs, is the seat of our desires. The Holy Spirit stands ready with the power of grace to transform our desires, but our repentance is necessary.
We must bring our desires into submission to the Holy Spirit, who alone can bring our lives into alignment with the way we were made to live.
The authenticating signature of wisdom is a humble life. Perhaps this is why the first step toward becoming a wise person is the humility to recognize your need for it.
To praise God and curse people not only bears witness to the disintegration of your own personhood, it destroys the personhood of others.