From: Judy Klug (2016) Check our motives Philippians 1:15-18. “It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill. The latter do so in love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former preach Christ...
Jesus’ life provides the template, the BEST example, of how we are to grow in six ways (Luke 2:52). Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy became the standard for understanding human development and setting institutional policies to support healthy populations after...
My word for 2020: “Grow”…….in grace, in obedience to God’s will, in the fruit of the Spirit, in spirit-soul-body, in all the ways that God has intended and ordained….. “Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to...
Whole-heartedness is called for again and again in God’s Word. When I was ten I gave my little baby-heart to Jesus….all that I knew of myself to all that I knew of Him. I recognized the sinful nature of humankind, even my own, and the need for a Savior....
In one of J.D. Walt’s Lenten devotionals in his new book “This Is How We Know”, he shares a poem by Robert Frost: “Nothing Gold Can Stay”. Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to...
Today I taught the first lesson in a new series called “Christians Growing Christians: Practical Lessons in Christian Living and Discipleship” at one of Lynn Haven Church’s adult SS classes at 9:30. It is designed to equip Christians to engage in...
