Tag: church hurts
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Free
Legalism kills life. The devil is a supreme legalist. Jesus set us free to be good and not to sweat the small stuff. KEEP. THE. MAIN. THING. THE. MAIN. THING.
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The main thing
Genesis. Been reading about Abraham and his family. Okay. I feel better about my dysfunctional parenting now. Keep the main thing the main thing.
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Choose
Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. II […]
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Toxic family
I love that Jesus teaches me how to think about well-meaning but toxic folks. He modeled it. And the people became offended and began to turn against him. Jesus said, “There’s only one place a prophet isn’t honored—his own hometown!”Matthew 13:57 TPThttps://bible.com/bible/1849/mat.13.57.TPT And if anyone doesn’t listen to you and rejects your message, when you […]
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Our marriage(s)
God, our marriage is hitting a rough patch. I think we’re not the only ones. This pandemic thing is kickin’ our collective butts! (And for me maybe some midlife stuff too.) I want to pray some stuff for us. Papa I claim this verse for my marriage. Our marriages. Psalm 🙏 20:1 And these verses […]
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Stick it in my pipe and smoke it.
I wish Christians understood that Paul generally uses “flesh” as a negative term for anything partial, and untrustworthy, NOT for the body itself. Richard Rohr@RichardRohrOFM