Loving our enemies involves a shift from how we feel to how we behave. Patience isn’t something we magically feel. It’s something we choose to practice. If we focus on emotional affection toward someb...  Read More

This is a tall order, I think. For a lot of reasons, both culturally and personally. Culturally speaking, 'love your enemies' is not what the crowds of people listening to Jesus at the Sermon on the M...  Read More

Matthew 5:38-42 was one of the most misunderstood passages in all of scripture. It's so misunderstood that a common phrase in our society now means something different than the original intent that Je...  Read More

If I'm born again… who's my daddy? Who becomes my Father? Because who our Father is gonna have a big effect on our family resemblance and tendencies as we grow. And some of it is hard to avoid. Even i...  Read More

There's a difference between having ears… and having ears to hear…. And that's the difference between physical hearing and spiritual hearing… the difference between receiving the sound waves somebody ...  Read More

How easy it can be to believe that someone or some group is a "wolf" when really they're just sheep. And the person or group feeding you that lie come from the false Prophets-the true wolves....  Read More