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If we risk our life to rescue someone so we can be a hero, it’s selfish. If we risk our life so someone else may live, it’s love. If we demand our children respect us so we can be respected, it’s selfish. If we demand our children respect us so they will be respectful, it’s love. God sees us inside out, and He wants us to see each other the same way. He looks on the heart.....”why” we do what we do. I pray you will check yourself and that I will do the same. The best possible thing we can ever d …

Thankfulness is the fruit of gratefulness. No one owes us anything! If we buy the lie people or God owes us something, we plant and nurture the seed of our own destruction. Luke 17:15-19”One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner? Then he said to him, Rise an …

We shouldn’t be in the business of policing everyone else’s decisions. The Bible tells us to get the log out of our own eye before we try to help someone remove the splinter from their eye. That said, loving someone who makes a habit of being selfish or is extremely selfish does mean challenging them to change for their own sake. Pretending it’s ok for someone to continue to abuse you or take advantage of you is not loving them. Love speaks truth. Not every truth is worth defending, but when one …

The reason pride comes before a fall is because pride blinds us. When we are blinded, we stumble over things humility would have easily seen and avoided. Only a moment of pride cost me a second National Championship. I would say most of my life I was a very proud man who was secretly afraid. The last 15 years, I have come to hate pride and embrace humility and gratefulness. As a result, fear has lost its grip in my life. Because of Jesus I know have power, love, and a sound mind. For your own sa …

God is our model Father, and a Father to the fatherless and the fathered. The best father this world has ever known is not perfect. All fathers make mistakes, but no loving father wants to make a mistake. The greatest blessing of having a loving father is that it teaches us how to live a loving life. If we don’t have a loving father, or even if we do, the best example of how to father is Jesus. The love of Jesus not only shows us how to love....His Holy Spirit also empowers us to live a loving l …

The idea that hardening our heart will protect us is not wise, and it’s not the easy way out. It may be easier right now, but like all fearful decisions, it brings immediate relief with the cost of delayed destruction. We must get in the game to fight to live a loving life. We can’t just follow our feelings because they lure us to our own demise. It’s not easy to keep living a loving life when we feel like love got us hurt. The truth is, love never hurts anyone. Selfishness and fear do that. 1 C …

If you are not sure what God wants you to do next, stay where you are but don’t just stay. Wherever you are, God’s will is that you live a loving life. That you give all you have in every circumstance and that you remain grateful. If you’re in darkness, be a light in the darkness. It takes Jesus in you to do that. There is no job that is not honorable. It’s people who are honorable or not. We are honorable when we honor God and others, not when others honor us. God will get you to His will for y …

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 …

I don’t think Jesus was saying some are righteous and some are not. I think He was saying He has nothing to offer the self righteous, but for the honest who are willing to own their sin, He has healing, forgiveness, and life. Love seeks truth and the truth is, I have no idea how anyone makes it without Jesus. Mark 2:17,”When Jesus heard this, He told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are s …

When we really understand how Jesus loves us we are left with a burning desire to love as we are loved. We no longer love to be loved we love because we are loved. Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. 2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. …