Rest Instead of Anxiety
If you’d like freedom from stress and anxiety, learn how to rest. Take time to slow down. You can find peace in spite of panic.
If you’d like freedom from stress and anxiety, learn how to rest. Take time to slow down. You can find peace in spite of panic.
All anger is not bad...and all conflicts are not wrong. But disagreements need to be expressed appropriately and at the right time.
The Apostle John addressed the struggle of our conscience. He offered all of us some advice that is not only helpful, it is inspired by God.
Expecting others to live according to your list will make you miserable. And if you live according to their list, you’ll be even more miserable.
It’s easy to go along with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone. When you take a stand for what you believe is right you influence those around you.
To put 1 John 3:11-18 in one brief sentence, the Apostle John was saying the lack of love is murderous.
Of the many things we could name that cause Christians grief and heartache, nothing can compare to sin.
A cross around a neck, an “ichthus” fish on the back of a car, a well-crafted sermon. None of these is the mark of a Christian—it is love. Like the old song says, “They will know we are Christians by our love.” Honest, transparent love.
The power of Jesus' love transformed John's life. When John came to the end of his life, the major theme of his letter to the church was loving one another.
The Apostle John's first-century command to "test the spirits" is also the biblical antidote to today's proliferation of religious error.