You know brotherly love. Honestly. You know it. Yet there is more to know about it. You don’t even need to have a brother to know brotherly love. You don’t even need to be male to know brotherly love. When Peter encourages his readers to add brotherly love, he could have been referring to the […]
Read More Add To Your Godliness – Brotherly LoveThe issue of adding godliness so that you’re not unfruitful in knowing Jesus is one of the most obvious connections ever. It really is. So, unsurprisingly, in as much as it is that obvious, in all our love for Jesus and giving Him thanks for all He’s done for us, there is still missing the […]
Read More Add To Your Perseverance – GodlinessThere are some themes in scripture that I didn’t pick up on until someone brings it to my attention. So here’s your challenge. Consider the writings in the New Testament. Gospels, Acts, Paul letters, Peter letters, James letter, Hebrews, John letters and the letter of Jude. Find one writer who doesn’t mention perseverance. Go ahead. […]
Read More Add To Your Self-Control – PerseveranceI could write a lot about self-control. I have certainly been considering it carefully in the last few days and even in preparation for this blog entry I had a whole lot to write about the matter. Things like a proposal that the enemy of self-control is self-indulgence. Things like how self-control isn’t about willpower […]
Read More Add To Your Knowledge – Self-ControlIn pursuit of moral excellence. I have come across either in reading or in conversation the issue of virtues and vices. I hear it mentioned casually that everyone needs to have their vice. Their little bit of naughtiness as a release. Their own little foible or flaw that they indulge in. They know they shouldn’t, […]
Read More Add To Your Faith – GoodnessThere is no guarantee that people will ever hear from you again. You can send some messages out to the believers to encourage them. What would you say? One of the things that continues to impress me about the second letter of Peter is the heart of a man who wants people to remember how […]
Read More To Your Faith …Bad days. Those days when, with the best intentions in the world, things just go bonkers wrong. Best laid plans and everything go up in smoke. Folks to connect with are not available and the desire to be helpful fails in an epic manner. Just want to be in a huff and shut out the […]
Read More When I Am Sad, He Makes Me GladThey stand up to give a hearty applause. Here in Britain, we are approaching the end of the Autumn Conference season. By that I am referring to that time of year where the major political parties have their gatherings. There was first the Liberal Democrats, then last week there was Labour and this week it’s […]
Read More Heartily Applauding The LeaderExploring this particular habit is very close to my heart for a lot of reasons. The first thing to address, though, is about the holy habits themselves. There are some things we develop and cultivate rather simply and easily. There are parallels between a number of natural habits and holy habits. For example it doesn’t […]
Read More Holy Habits: WordLately I have been considering the issue of holy habits and shared a little about it by way of a prelude. It is my intention to get into the habits in more detail as the blog entries come and go. At the moment though, I want to delve a little bit further into the issue […]
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