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The truth is way too important to ignore, but it’s also very powerful. So is God’s Word. When we have something so powerful, we should be carful how we deliver it. You don’t have to hit someone hard with a freight train in order to get their attention. Normally, all they have to do is see it coming, sometimes they need to be bumped by it, and as a last resort, they may need to be challenged with it. Our responsibility is to deliver the truth in a way someone is most likely to receive it. Not jus …

Saying we are sorry can mean a lot of things. The greatest evidence we are not seeking truth or truly repenting is when we look in the eyes of truth and make more excuses. True repentance is wrecked by the fact the truth means it’s the problem. So wrecked, it changes directions and will do most anything to make sure it never stands for a lie again. It no longer fights for itself, but fights for the truth despite itself. It will no longer be the plaintiff or the defendant in its own life. It will …

If we settle for someone it’s not their fault it’s our fault. This does not mean we are responsible for their selfishness, just that we are responsible for our involvement in their selfishness. This is not bad news, it’s good news because it means we can change our own destiny while we help and love the people around us. We all fail, we all struggle and we are all selfish at times, but if we want love to rule our lives, we must never defend our own mistakes. We must desire above all that those w …

Valid or not valid- don’t allow feelings to lead your life. Consider them, but don’t follow them. In my own life, nothing has mislead me more than my feelings. Now and then they lead me to truth, but most often to destruction. If we follow our feelings, we will live a life based on a lie that has one goal. To use us to hurt the people around us in the process of destroying ourself. Seek the truth and follow the truth regardless of your feelings. The truth leads to fruitfulness. If you haven’t re …

If we settle for someone it’s not their fault it’s our fault. This does not mean we are responsible for their selfishness, just that we are responsible for our involvement in their selfishness. This is not bad news, it’s good news because it means we can change our own destiny while we help and love the people around us. We all fail, we all struggle and we are all selfish at times, but if we want love to rule our lives, we must never defend our own mistakes. We must desire above all that those w …

When we come to understand the truth of what love really is, and how Jesus loves us despite ourself and our sin, and we love Him for loving us, then everything changes. We don’t love Jesus so He will love us. He already loves us, but our life doesn’t change until we love Him. It’s the insane truth of His love for us that sets us free. When that truth drops from our head to our heart we become grateful. Extremely grateful, and so much so, all we want to do is love Jesus and others like He loves u …

  Anger and all sin are most often our enemy. I do believe there is a righteous anger, but it’s rare. Righteous anger is anger for the damage sin causes, or an anger for someone using love to hurt people....using Jesus to manipulate people. That’s why Jesus threw the tables. Most of the time though, anger is our enemy and not our friend. Rebellion and riots are a trap. Before we get stuck on anger, we must follow one truth to the next truth to the next truth. Truth leads to more truth. …

Bullying as we all know is an attempt to manipulate other people. It’s an effort by people to get what the bully wants without regard for other people. A bully is someone who either willingly rejects the truth or doesn’t know the truth. They are unwilling to change and won’t listen to truth that suggest they should. Either way, they don’t feel safe standing for the truth fearing it will cost them too much. So they attempt to manipulate and control others by overwhelming power, shame, or the thre …

What matters most is what we believe. Love requires we seek and believe the truth. Fear wants us to believe what we feel. Whatever we believe will guide our lives. Our beliefs are the rudder on our ship. We don’t need to figure out why the truth doesn’t fit our beliefs and bend the truth to fit our beliefs. We need to figure out why our beliefs don’t fit the truth and change our beliefs to fit the truth. The truth is not hard to find but it takes courage to seek it. It’s found by asking “why” th …