Luke 6:28 Niv

Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. Luke 6:28 “This book was a simple waste of my time. It was a full three hours that I cannot get back.” “Don’t waste your time. I struggled to get almost half through and finally just skipped to the last chapter. It wasn’t funny nor […]…

When someone behaves in a mean-spirited way toward us, it can suck us into an emotionally and spiritually dark place. If we respond with hatred and bitterness, we could descend into a spiral more devastating than the original offense.…

When someone behaves in a mean-spirited way toward us, it can suck us into an emotionally and spiritually dark place. If we respond with hatred and bitterness, we could descend into a spiral more devastating than the original offense.…

Grace and Forgiveness I heard Carol Arnott say that her book Grace and Forgiveness is worth a trillion dollars. Hyperbole, of course, but (Jesus, forgive this crassness!!) if I were to monetize it, learning and practising forgiveness would easily be worth well over £100,000, perhaps £500,000 in a lifetime. No, more! Speculative, of course, but that’s […]…

Total Forgiveness Here’s one of my favourite stories. The novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne’s daughter Una is sick and is expected to die that night. He paces near her bed as her fever climbs, and she grows weaker and weaker. She is the brightest, his dearest child, who most resembles him. She CANNOT die. In the middle […]…

Late December 2019, instead of changing into my swimwear and dashing into the water (after a hot 30-min walk), I found myself sitting on the banks of Rio Don Diego, Colombia, oddly reflective. I po……

When you lose a friend, it is painful and hard to move on. Most of us probably ask, Why do we have to lose friends? Unfortunately, loss happens in relationships over time. But we can learn to accept, grieve, heal and move on from lost friendships.…

The Christian standard of love is outrageously high and almost impossible to achieve, mostly because some people are jerks and God calls us to love them anyway. Scripture commands we love people wh……

When you lose a friend it feels unnatural and painful. So, why do we have to lose friends? I wish I didn’t have to answer that question and instead could say, “you don’t have to lose friends, ever”. But that is not the way it is, everyone has lost or will lose a friend. Despite …

The Christian standard of love is outrageously high and almost impossible to achieve, mostly because some people are jerks and God calls us to love them anyway. Scripture commands we love people wh……