When engaging and confronting our culture, we (as fellow sinners) must patiently exhort in manner that introduces people to Jesus. In this, people will be called both to conviction (as…
If you have a false foundation, even what you build true will crumble.
The more I get the Gospel, the more I beautiful Jesus becomes, the more passion I have in running toward the one who loves me and has done everything for…
If you stand in the truth, nothing can knock you down. If you don’t stand in the truth, then it is blessing to be knocked down. If you are to…
We can treat those who disagree with us as enemies or as potential allies.
Good conflicts pursue truth and honesty, bad conflicts argue for victory and defend self-worth. Good conflicts pursue understanding and truth, bad conflicts accuse without listening or knowing the other person.
Stubbornness is blinding and unwilling to be corrected or to listen, restrictive, in-compassionate, and destructive, it does not understand its standing with with God. Conviction is open minded, willing to…
The Gospel pursues beauty, wisdom, growth, and the best in life knowing that it is accepted. Legalism pursues only those measures seen as obtainable and is ruled by fear, anxiety…
I cannot live a life of “Christ died for me, so what will I do for God”. We don’t owe God anything, Christ paid it all.
Sometimes we call wisdom “legalism” simply because we don’t feel good at it and have issues with our identity and don’t understand our identity in Christ. Wisdom is freedom.
