Loneliness and Isolation (And the Friends We Choose)
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Read MoreEverything Else is Secondary. . .
If you’re a Jesus follower you have one main job. And that job is to love the people God puts in front of you. Everything else you do is secondary.
If you don’t live this way, you’ll regret it.
Everlasting joy in return for one day’s effort on earth
Life is hard, but it’s worth it.
“Everlasting joy in return for one day’s effort on earth.”
–Blaise Pascal
Do Whatever You Need to Do…
Do whatever you need to do to love well the people God puts in front of you and in your circles.
Character and Commitment vs. the Easy Life–Acts 27
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Read MoreJust because something is hard . . .
Someone needed help so Kathy and I hopped on a plane and flew out to their location. We’ve been helping them for the last three days.
And to be honest, it’s been really hard.
But this experience has reminded me: Just because something is hard, doesn’t mean it’s bad.
Sometimes the very best things God has for us in life, are also the hardest.
You Become Who You Hang With (Even if it’s a YouTube streamer)
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Read MoreBeing Jesus
Last Tuesday I had dinner with a man who, for a time, had fallen away from his faith in Jesus. He stayed far from God for a number of years, but, then he found himself among people who attracted him to Christ. He said,
“The thing about these people is that they were being Jesus.”
He found their Christlike good works and their Christlike behavior compelling. He found them so compelling, that he came back to Jesus. And that’s where he is today: in Christ, a follower of Jesus, and a lover of Jesus.
It’s the love of Jesus that leads people to repentance. (Romans 2:4)
“Lord help me and the dear person reading this right now to be filled with the deep abiding love of Jesus for You and for everyone You put in front of us. Give us Your Holy Spirit to help us do good works that please You. Give us strength to do Christlike good works and to live our lives like Jesus lived his.
“In Jesus’ name we ask this of You.
“Amen.”
Notes:
Image of Jesus Healing the Paralytic via Lluís Ribes Mateu, Creative Commons
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Love Like Jesus: How Jesus Loved People (and how you can love like Jesus)
Love Like Jesus begins with the story of how after a life of regular church attendance and Bible study, Bennett was challenged by a pastor to study Jesus. That led to an obsessive seven year deep dive. After pouring over Jesus’ every interaction with another human being, he realized he was doing a much better job of studying Jesus’ words than he was following Jesus’ words and example. The honest and fearless revelations of Bennett’s own moral failures affirm he wrote this book for himself as much as for others. Love Like Jesus examines a variety of stories, examples, and research, including:
- Specific examples of how Jesus communicated God’s love to others.
- How Jesus demonstrated all five of Gary Chapman’s love languages (and how you can too).
- The story of how Billy Graham extended Christ’s extraordinary love and grace toward a man who misrepresented Jesus to millions.
- How to respond to critics the way Jesus did.
- How to love unlovable people the way Jesus did.
- How to survive a life of loving like Jesus (or how not to become a Christian doormat).
- How Jesus didn’t love everyone the same (and why you shouldn’t either).
- How Jesus guarded his heart by taking care of himself–he even napped–and why you should do the same.
- How Jesus loved his betrayer Judas, even to the very end.
With genuine unfiltered honesty, Love Like Jesus, shows you how to live a life according to God’s definition of success: A life of loving God well, and loving the people around you well too.
A life of loving like Jesus. (Kindle, hardcover, and paperback now available on Amazon and the ebook is now available on Google Play Books.)
How Do You Compare?
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Read MoreAn Unexpected Death in My Family
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Read MoreA Seeker of Truth
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Read MoreHe is Risen!
“Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!”
He is risen!
