Choosing the Better Thing (Rebelling Against Exhaustion, Part 3)
Behind the choices we make are a set of values. Letting worldly values often leads us down a path of exhaustion. Jesus challenges us to choose a different path....
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There may be more to Chinese New Year traditions than meets the eye....
Calling January 1st the start of a "new" year doesn't change anything about us or the year itself. And maybe that's a very good thing....
The Christmas story is only half a story if we leave out what Jesus was doing before he was born....
We often see words like "Joy" "Peace" and "Blessing" and Christmastime, but there is one word we do not often associate with the season. And yet it is a very fitting word....
God is loving, but in a way that doesn't always match our demands and expectations. ...
The greatest obstacle to trusting God's wisdom is that we fail to grasp how different God's thoughts are from our own....
If we believe that God is on control of the big things, we have to believe he is in total control of all the small things, too....
Is sadness a sign of immaturity? Can I worship honestly if I'm not happy? Reading the Psalms might suggest that honest worship embraces the whole spectrum of our emotions. ...
Scripture tells us to "regard no one according to the flesh." How does this affect the labels our society encourages us to use?...
What does the pastor of a small Presbyterian church think about while in a room full of Presbyterian pastors in the midst of a debate?...
Are things getting better? Worse? About the same? And what does that mean for how we live as God's people?...
How do those with citizenship in heaven pray for an earthly nation?...
How long should we pray for something? Until we receive an answer. An old prayer request list on the church computer helped me understand that....
Behind the choices we make are a set of values. Letting worldly values often leads us down a path of exhaustion. Jesus challenges us to choose a different path....
Part 1 in a 3-part series on our culture's obsession with staying busy - what that means to our hearts and how Scripture calls us to rebel against it....
We live in a culture that encourages us to be busy. At the root of that tendency is a false belief that our worth comes from how we spend our time. The Sabbath rest challenges this idol in our hearts....
Behind the choices we make are a set of values. Letting worldly values often leads us down a path of exhaustion. Jesus challenges us to choose a different path....
Keep ReadingPart 1 in a 3-part series on our culture's obsession with staying busy - what that means to our hearts and how Scripture calls us to rebel against it....
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