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. But with stories, we have to make…
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 But Jesus says, “Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” (Mt 11:28-29) Later when…