Romans 12:10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another. Her words have stayed with me for all of my adult life. I was 18 years old. As a second-time guest at a Bible study, the youth pastor's wife introduced me to several other kids by saying, …
Category: Relationships
The Pastor: The Life of a Door Man
Who gets in? Who gets left out in the cold? The door man decides. Several years ago, The Los Angeles Times entertainment website unveiled a cover story on the city’s club scene. Profiling door men who screen entry intoexclusive establishments, the article explains that success is attached to what you wear and who you are …
Doing Relationships with the Light On
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another… In the 1950's Mamie Eisenhower was living in the White House with her husband, President Dwight Eisenhower. One night her nose was all stopped up and she reached for a jar of Vicks …
Let’s Get Salty
Mark 9:50 Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another.” What an odd passage! If you find it a bit of a challenge to understand -- you are not alone. There are a couple dozen different scholarly interpretations. …
People: God’s Penny Jars
Romans 14:19 Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another. I use to have a penny jar at home… not any more. Let me tell you what happened. Day by day I used to empty my pocket change into my penny jar, but as …
The Big Clue!
John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. Loving one another: Jesus Himself calls you and me to freely give love …
Members of One Another
Romans 12:4-5 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are …
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