Relationships

Being in One Another’s Lives

Brokenness, Love, Loving Others, Relationships, Unity

Jesus did not become a heretic because he ate with sinners, showed mercy to adulterers, or bucked certain religious traditions. Loving others well happens…

Growing In Understanding

Communication, Listening, Relationships, Understanding

In “The One Where Joey Speaks French,” an episode of the sitcom Friends, Phoebe, who is fluent in French, attempts to teach Joey the…

Love Triangle

Love, Marriage, Relationship with God, Relationships

One of the great ways that biblical marriage has been portrayed is with the picture of a triangle. The husband and wife form the…

When Things Feel One-Sided

Relationship with God, Relationships, Seeking God, Silence

Have you ever had a relationship where you were the only one putting in the effort? Maybe it was a friendship or romantic relationship…

Letter From Jim

Adultery, Commandments, Disobedience, Love, Marriage, Obedience, Relationships, Sin, Temptation, Ten Commandments

In “Letter from Jim,” Garrison Keillor tells the story of a man with a PhD in classics who, after years of teaching at the…

Run As One

Healthy Relationships, Marriage, One, Relationships, Unity

In a three-legged race, you and your partner are connected together by your inside legs, thus having only “three” working legs between the two…

Look-Alikes

Expectations, Healthy Relationships, Imitation, Marriage, Relationships

Occasionally, we see celebrity look-alikes, or people who play celebrities in biographical movies in public. Sometimes, they look so much like the person that…

Family Is Family

Church, Community, Family, Family of God, Relationships

Church is a bit like a family reunion. You don’t get to pick who is invited. Family is family. The church family is sometimes…

The Perfect Place to Hide

Community, Honesty, Relationships, Social Media

Social media has become the photo album of the day, highlighting everyone’s best times and memories—and it feels upsetting. Why isn’t anyone being real?…

The Little Things

Evangelism, Relationships, Sharing Faith, Witnessing

Consider the slapstick comedy of Wily E. Coyote, and how he’s always chasing the Road Runner. With large batches of TNT and mallets, he’s…

Flight Plan

Family, Mission, Priorities, Relationships

Bruce Feiler shares some insights into family life in his article, ‘Want to Give Your Family Value and Purpose?’. ‘Good families—even great families—are off…

Plot Twist

Care, Loving God, Patience, Psalms, Relationships

Have you ever seen a good plot twist in a movie? This is when you think the plot is heading one direction, when all…

Committed

Church, Commitment, Consistency, Relationships, Worship

Like any long relationship, there can be seasons of great enthusiasm and seasons of drought in church life. There will be times when participating…

Distractors

1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Corinthians 7:35, 1 John 2:15, Colossians 3:1-2, Distraction, Ephesians 5:15-16, Evangelism, Friendships, Hebrews 12:2, Influence, Like 8:7, Luke 10:38-42, Mark 4:19, Matthew 14:28-31, Matthew 7:7-11, Obedience, Prayer, Praying, Proverbs 4:25, Relationships, Romans 12:2, Technology

Technology advances have played a vital role in resources that have enhanced our quality of life, but technology has also become a significant distractor…

The Toxic Nature of Sin

2 Corinthians 11:3, Consequences, Creation, Destruction, Genesis 3:1-24, James 1:15, Pollution, Relationships, Romans 5:12, Romans 6:23, Romans 8:20-21, Sin, The Fall

Things like natural disasters and disease are evidence of the fallenness of all of creation. Sin did not just affect human relationships but the…

The Church Is Faulty

1 Corinthians 12:12, 1 Corinthians 12:13, 1 Corinthians 12:27, Church, Colossians 1:18, Colossians 1:24, Community, Ephesians 2:19-22, Ephesians 4:4, Imperfect People, Loving God, Loving Others, Relationships, Romans 12:4-5

“The church is faulty, but that is no excuse for your not joining it, if you are the Lord’s. Nor need your own faults…

Identity Theft

1 John 3:1-2, 1 Peter 2:9, Belief, Ephesians 1:5, Faith in Christ, Galatians 3:27-28, Genesis 1:27, Identity, Influence, John 1:12, Life Lived, Perception, Relationships, Respect, Romans 15:7, Romans 6:6, View

According to the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics, an estimated 17.6 million people age 16 and up were victims of identity theft in…

Distractors

1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Corinthians 7:35, 1 John 2:15, Colossians 3:1-2, Distraction, Ephesians 5:15-16, Evangelism, Friendships, Hebrews 12:2, Influence, Luke 10:38-42, Luke 8:7, Mark 4:19, Matthew 14:28-31, Matthew 7:7-11, Obedience, Praying, Proverbs 4:25, Relationships, Romans 12:2, Technology

Technology advances have played a vital role in resources that have enhanced our quality of life, but technology has also become a significant distractor…