As the body, we’re called to show God’s mercy. Can the world see it?
Sometimes we become so fixed on where we want to go that we cannot see how we are defeating ourselves. Jonah runs in the opposite direction when God sends him to Nineveh, raising questions we often avoid: Do we understand who God is, who we are, and how He sees the people we would rather leave behind?
Pastor Tim talks about what the Rich Young Ruler was missing and how it parallels the experience of the Prophet Jonah.
What does Biblical leadership look like? It looks just a “bit” different than what we see in the world.
What happens when the life you planned collapses and your worst failure seems to have settled what you can ever become? Exodus 3–4 brings that question to Moses, a fugitive tending sheep in the wilderness, when the holy God calls him from a burning bush and sends him toward the people and place he fled.
Jim wraps up our exploration of the Fruit of the Spirit by looking at the opposite of “self-control” in this week’s devotional.
What does Paul have in mind when he talks about the gift of generosity? Living a generous life is more than just giving a certain percentage of what we have.
Grace saves us—we don’t deserve it, can’t earn it, and have no grounds to boast about it, as Paul makes plain in Ephesians 2:8–9—so what does it look like when a community of undeserving people actually lives that out together as the church God is building?
Pastor Tim continues our exploration of the Fruit of the Spirit by looking at the opposite of “gentleness” in this week’s devotional.
Is exhortation merely correcting people around us or is there something deeper to the calling to exhort?