How do we overcome bad things that happen to us and rise up within us?
…His self-sacrificing love for us is the antidote for sinful self-centeredness…
…His self-sacrificing love for us is the antidote for sinful self-centeredness…
Though all Christians are spiritually gifted differently, we are all called to point others to Jesus.
Most of us have a little more likeness to Peter … than we would like to admit.
I was one of three ministers eating lunch together when this question surfaced …
Jesus prayed frequently and in fervency, but never in fear.
We who struggle with patience may ask why God is so patient with people who can be so bad!
The wrong people get offended. That was both bad and good news for the early church.
“… we must remember that the people and situations God puts before us are so much more than roadblocks.”
“If people aren’t offended by the gospel, they’ll never really understand the gospel.”
“The fuel for that mission had better not be our good intentions or even our compassion.”
Peter messed up. Blew it. He failed big-time, yet learned to rely on God’s love and power…