What’s Your Response When Gossip is Served?
How will you respond next time gossip is served? We’re all guilty of it eating and serving gossip. We dress…
Category: Get Humble
Comparing Two Dreamers, from the Old and New Testament
The Bible is filled with stories of real people with real dreams, just like us. RJ Thesman takes a closer…
Learning to Be the Church
What difference might it make if instead of planning more church programs, we initiated more projects next door? Jesus challenged…
Lessons from Egyptian Christians, Part 3: Extreme Hospitality
Let us be a church that is known for hospitality, for how we love our family and our enemies. Let…
Christian Community; Bearing With One Another in Love
What I’ve learned is, with all the good intentions of love and compassion, we can lose sight of Jesus in…
God’s Word Prunes Our Lives (John 15:1-8)
I chose the word “fruitful” inspired by John 15:1-8 as my one word for the next twelve months. When we…
Ministry Reversed (Ephesians 5:16)
Although RJ intended to encourage her ill friend, she was surprised by “ministry reversed” as her friend showed a positive,…
Living Abundantly With Less
Downsizing, whether forced or voluntary, helps us redefine what abundance really means and shows us what is important: the truth…
Three Biblical Tips for Peace-Loving Christians
If you are a peace-loving Christian, you may find truth-tellers hard to live with, because they are often so zealous…
Does God Really Care About the Details? ( Psalm 139 )
Do you ever wonder if God is paying attention? If he really knows what he’s doing? This week, God reminded…
A Hog’s Guide to the Christian Life: Humility, Obedience, Generosity and Servanthood
What do you think of when you hear the word “hog”? Most people think of an animal, but in this…
Five Biblical Tips for Truth – Loving Christians
Often, Christians fall into two categories: those who want to stand for truth above all and those who want to…