When there’s a conflict, the key is to listen. Entering a discussion, knowing there’s tension, primed to unload your views isn’t helpful. It is possible that you have misunderstood, and the conflict could be resolved easily. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful blessing? Listening can be an act of love and peacemaking. Owning your part in…
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Jesus Teaches (Matthew 13)
video in Sermon Current link MOTIVATE Many parents and grandparents enjoy reading to children. It’s one of the classic ways to create a bond of love, as well as nurture character and teach life lessons. Stories have a way of shaping minds and hearts more than abstract truth. Few children crawl in a lap and…
Fix Our Prayers
“Some people get so entangled in the various dos and don’ts of prayers, so transfixed by the problem of sorting out what is our part and what is God’s part, so bogged down by fretting over whether they, as mere flawed humans, should ask anything of a holy, almighty God or conversely whether there is…
Jesus Clarifies (Matthew 11-12)
video on “Sermon Current” page MOTIVATE Keeping Sabbath is a challenging concept and command for me. I thrive with people more than solo. I’m ambitious and seek challenges/competition. I’m optimistic – believing there’s always a solution, and forever there is hope. I’m challenged by stillness; body moves on auto. But Jesus says, “Come to me…