We should be glad that God uses “less than perfect” vessels, otherwise he couldn’t use anyone. We should also be glad that God is a God of second (third, fourth, etc.) chances. We are never limited by out past failures. We see this in Jonah, in, that while he did run the other direction for…
Boasting is usually frowned upon. In scripture, it is often referred to as vainglory. Some use it as a way to affirm themselves or put others down. It is usually self-centered and self-exalting. However, there is another kind of boasting that is “other centered.” That is when we recognize that in ourselves, we have nothing.…
One evil act is never fixed by another evil act. We are prone to be escalators. How we handle a crisis is indicative of our intimacy with God or lack of it. We are called to live a life that is counter-cultural. “A life that is a glorious contradiction to what the world calls normal.”
