These are the ways love responds, because love is not a force or a feeling. Love is an action within relationships. Relationships do not happen without love being there.

Brotherly kindness is common kindness. It is engaging with the world, with your neighbor, in ways that any other person with a human heart would do.

Peter’s experience denying Christ taught him that he cannot boast of his own godliness.

Watch Video Today we build on yesterday’s thought, Self-Control, to Perseverance. Peter’s second letter outlines the progressive steps toward making

Watch Video Today’s thought is Self-Control. It’s not just about control of appetites, like how often you run to the

Watch Video In Peter’s second letter, he says we should add to our faith, virtue – or moral goodness. The

Watch Video Today we explore the root lie of all lies. In 2 Peter 1:3 the great apostle states that

When we return to the familiar, we often return to familiar sins, habits, addictions that have trapped us in the past.

During these last ten days of the coronavirus self-quarantine, I will be focusing on 2 Peter 1 and the primary qualities that we are to make every effort to add to our faith.

The call to leadership is a call to be crushed first. May God give you grace if you are called to lead. And remember, after you come to a realization of who you really are, return to God. Come boldly to him for grace to help. And strengthen your brothers and sisters.

Watch Video My wife and I were reading in Trent Sheppard’s book, The Jesus Journey, this morning and we came

I was to be leading a book study in my home during this time. It’s a book called With, by Skye Jethani. Jethani outlines five postures most people have toward God.

When you take time for something or someone, you are experiencing some of eternity.

“…priests who faithfully minister before God with prayers and intercessions for our families and communities, …”

Fellowship with just one other person, and Jesus says, “I am there.” We can count on Jesus being with us in our homes. Jesus is doing something around the world.

The path to that kind of forgiveness is to admit, like the thief, that you have sinned. It’s not an antiquated term; it’s the word we use for those acts that “miss the mark”, fail to achieve righteousness, falling short of God’s best, his glory.

Watch the video Notice the things that Jesus says. Luke 23:3 So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of

Watch the video Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. Jesus

For this extended 30 days of quarantine in April, I’m doing Thirty Thoughts for you. Here’s Day Seven: Reset I

Watch video Today’s thought is the word Faith.  “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not

Watch video Today’s thought is the word Study.  “Study to show yourself approved unto God, a worker that does not

Watch video Today’s thought is about being Home..  No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand,

Jesus surrendered control by taking personal responsibility. He chose to do his Father’s will no matter what.

There are four major sources of anxiety.