Leftovers
On the surface, much of the Old Testament seems distant from us. The cultural practices and religious duties are far different than our everyday experience of walking with Jesus. But…
Category: 2023
The Jesus Way – No Show Prayers
Nuance is a troublemaker. We’d love for our convictions to be well-defined, stark, and without shadows. But that isn’t authentic or realistic. As we judge others with a lack of…
The Jesus Way – Giving Without Hypocrisy
Have you ever done the right thing in the wrong way? Or perhaps done the right thing with the wrong motives? All of us can probably raise our hand to…
Spoken to You
I’m always amazed at what is tucked away in the Bible for safekeeping. Little insights that have a gigantic impact. One of those gems is hidden in Matthew 22:23-33. Thanks…
The Jesus Way – Be Perfect
There is a difference between goals, aims, and trajectories. To understand the difference, let’s consider an archer. As an archer gathers their bow and arrows, their goal is to hit…
What If?
Does your situation influence your worship? What I mean is this. What are your feelings towards God when things are going wrong? Let’s consider something written long ago by a…
The Jesus Way – Love Your Enemies
Who is the hardest person to love? Or perhaps we could turn this around and ask – Who is the easiest to hate? That person or group is the very…
The Jesus Way – Unbalanced Scales
We all have a built-in fairness scale. But, if we’re really honest, we’ll also admit that our fairness scale is skewed a bit in our favor. One part of that…
The Jesus Way – #8, Let Your Word Stand
The next topic in Jesus’ sermon on the mount seems almost trivial compared to murder, adultery, and divorce. But in several ways, it is more important than those three combined.…
The Jesus Way – Marriage and Divorce
A recent study, as reported in The Daily Wire(link is below), shows that a continuous marriage without divorce reduces the risk of dementia later in life. Interesting. There have also…
The Jesus Way – Lust, Sex, and Adultery
Sex is good, but not all are spiritually, emotionally, and physically healthy. That is important to understand before we delve into the next part of The Jesus Way. In several…
The Jesus Way #5 – Be Reconciled
In our previous article (link), Jesus taught that murder is more than the physical act of ending life and that judgment would fall on disparaging and angry words spoken to…