Stop and Listen
Our quiet presence is sometimes all someone needs to feel loved and cared for. Yet as we listen to them,…
Category: Get Humble
Fully Human 7: Gethsemane
If the person to whom we look for reassurance and strength is barely holding things together, this can often rock…
Forgiveness Requires Willingness
God uses our willingness to forgive and works through us. Forgiveness is not an overnight miracle; more often, God heals…
Fully Human 6: Weeping, Part 2
If God most fully reveals Himself to humanity through the person of Jesus Christ, as we have seen throughout this…
Fully Human 5: Weeping, Part 1
Like many of us, Greg can identify with the devastation and grief that Martha and Maria must have felt when…
Discipline of Serving Others
According to Ephesians 2:10, we are “created in Christ Jesus to do good works,which God prepared in advance for us to…
Fully Human 4: Jesus was Tempted
Many Christians misunderstand temptation, believing it to be inherently sinful, and insist that if we were more holy (like Jesus)…
“Did I Really Say That?!” Using Wisdom in Our Words
No matter how you try to rationalize careless words, they hurt. I grew up in a family where words of…
The Freedom of Non-Toxic thoughts
It’s amazing how bad our thinking can be, and the price we pay when that thinking goes horribly wrong. Have…
Fully Human 2: Emptied Out
What does it mean to say that Jesus ‘emptied Himself?’ The almighty, all-knowing God chose to become a vulnerable, weak,…
Spiritual Discipline and True Teaching
Growth in godliness comes through Spiritual discipline. One of the things growing in the faith presumes is good, sound and…