The fruit of God’s gentleness leads to Christ’s mercy
We try to teach our children how to be gentle. You don’t want a 2 yr old poking someone’s eye out, or a 6 year old destroying valuable things in your home. We try to teach young people how to use their words in a way that doesn’t hurt someone else’s feelings. But is that what gentleness is as a fruit of the spirit – to keep from hurtin ...
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” Mother Teresa of Calcutta
1Cor. 4:2 Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful
Faithfulness:
“Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.” Edwin Louis Cole
When someone does what they say they will do or what is expected of them
–adjective
1. strict or thorough in ...
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” ― Leo Tolstoy
What does it mean for God’s goodness to be cursing through your life? What might that even look like?
There is probably a flood of thoughts and ideas that run through our minds… I few were to write them all down with the people in our room we would likely have a very long list.
good - We use the word ...
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope
Nothing sets a person apart in this world like being kind. When I think of kindness, I think of a recent best selling book / movie – the help. A story set in Mississippi in the early 1960 when black maids cared for the homes and children of white women. Here is a woman named Aibileene is shaping ...
We want to ‘get things done’. It makes us feel good to accomplish things and when other people or things stand in our way we struggle – we become impatient.
We spend a lot of our lives waiting. We wait for our spouse, our friends, our kids. We wait for our boss, we wait for the stranger ahead of us.
We wait for our circumstances to change. We wait for our lives to come together. We wait ...
From Psalm 42
There are questions and challenges we each face, but how can we start this New Year and experience the fullness of God's peace in the midst of them?
We have just experienced Christmas – a fun and joyful celebration for some and for others a gut wrenching time only made worse because of the weight that somehow it should be a light hearted time.
In the midst of Christmas we hea ...In the light of Jesus we see who God is and who we, by his grace, can become.
This is the time of year we celebrate the Advent or coming of Jesus into the world.
Who is this Jesus we celebrate at Advent?
He says He is Light
Jn 8:12 , he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
He could make this claim – any time, ...
Jesus has made us to be light in our world so we can offer light to the world.
This Advent, we are celebrating a ‘Season of Light’
As we know, living in Vancouver, Christmas comes in a season of darkness. It is beginning to get dark by mid afternoon and by 5pm it is really dark out. We need light and become very aware of light and darkness
Gen 1:3-4 “And God said, "Let there be light," an ...
God blesses generosity because He is a generous God. When God’s people are generous they look more like God.
"I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't." Sir John Templeton, chairman of Templeton Funds
God desires that we make our decisions based on who He is and what He wants to accomplish through our lives that will bring Him glory.
Decision making is a huge part of our life. we make hundreds of decisions every day. Most are small – like what am I going to wear today. Some are medium sized decisions like how will I spend my time or my money. Some are bigger decisions – where will I go ...