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WATCH VIDEO Thank God, the answer is yes, it is possible The Bible tells us we are to love even our enemies. What I used to do is sit around and try to drum up a feeling of love for someone I didn’t’ even like. It was impossible. I felt guilty for not feeling good about someone, because I didn’t feel like I was loving them because I didn’t like them or didn’t like what they were doing. We need to sit on the jury on our own life. We can’t just not like people b …

WATCH VIDEO I would say that God gave us our feelings for a reason. I think all feelings are valid. In other words, we feel what we feel because we believe what we believe. The problem is that our feelings may be based on a lie. In other word, if what we believe is not the truth, then our feelings can easily mislead us. If we just follow our feelings wherever they take us, they can wreck our lives. What we should do is seek the truth regardless of how we feel. As we find the truth and we follow …

WATCH VIDEO A lot of people on television right now are talking about mercy. This conversation leads us to wonder: What is mercy and what is merciful? I would say that if you remove the truth from what you call mercy, it’s not mercy at all. Nothing is more merciful than the truth because truth is best for everyone. So, people who say they are being merciful but they are actually removing the truth from their mercy are using mercy to get what they want. That’s not merciful at all. Thi …

WATCH VIDEO Fear is a feeling. Its purpose is to alert us to potential danger. Fear offers no guidance or direction. We are not supposed to follow it or allow it to lead our lives. We shouldn’t ignore it. When we feel fear, we should stop and ask why. Why do we feel the fear? We seek the truth and then we allow truth and love to lead our lives. If we mess up and we allow fear to not only alert us to potential danger, but we play it over and over in our heads, we will allow it to lead our …

WATCH VIDEO It could mean that their empathy wasn’t sincere. They just wanted to be empathetic because that makes them look good, and they didn’t have true empathy for you. Or it could mean they really did have true empathy for you and what you went through., and that because they love you and their empathy is from their love, they want you to do something different. But you are not doing it. So, they are making sure you understand they don’t approve of what you are doing, beca …

WATCH VIDEO I am not saying God doesn’t have anger but I am saying I don’t think you need to worry that God is going to punish you because he is angry. If God is angry, it’s because He loves you. Think of it like this:  I have children. If my children are playing in the middle of the highway, I am going to be angry but my anger is because I love them. I am not going to throw them in the middle of the highway because I am angry one day. God has wrath but He is love. He is n …

WATCH NOW I spent half of my life chasing the dream of a national ski-jump championship. On the second jump competing for a national championship, I hit the side of the ramp and it broke some of my gear. One of the things it busted was the ski fin on the bottom of my ski. We had three minutes for repairs or it was a forced forfeit. In those three minutes I was able to change out the broken fin for a good one. And in my last jump I was able to jump further than I’ve ever jumped, and my drea …

WATCH VIDEO No, it’s really not possible to love in vain. Because the purpose of loving is not to change other people, it is to change you. It’s like the fruit changes the tree but it is not for the tree. Why do you think God is always telling us to make sure we love, but never telling us to make sure we are loved. For one, we are already are loved. And, number two, is because it is loving that changes who you are, not being loved. Think about it. Trust God’s Word no matte …

WATCH VIDEO I’ve known a lot of big strong burly guys that the world would call manly men, who, when they get home to their families, their families are afraid. And I’ve known a lot of guys that the world would consider very meek, who get home to their families, and their families feel safe, protected and provided for. I would just tell you that everything that the world tells you makes manly men is usually what cowards are doing to appear manly. Manly men are not about how they …

WATCH VIDEO God never told husbands to submit their wives He told husbands and wives to submit to each other. He told husbands to lay down their lives for their wives. He didn’t tell wives to make sure their husbands lay down their lives. He didn’t tell husbands to make sure their wives submit to them. Submitting is the wives’ responsibility Laying down his life and submitting is the husband’s responsibility. But a man who is trying to submit his own wife is led by fear a …