How does cultivating thankfulness generate peace and harmony? Try a variation on counting to ten next time you are irritated, frustrated, or ready to give up on something or someone. Name ten things you are thankful for right now–big and small, physical or emotional, person or situation. Or try listing ten things you are thankful… Read More
Mature Conscience
Awakened Christians possess a true working conscience. 1. Remorse. It comes from the flesh, and it doesn’t work before the event to keep you out of trouble, it only makes you feel bad after the fact. It is selfish and self-centered; it never gets to the cross, never gets to freedom. 2. Awakened spirit conscience.… Read More
Colossians 3:14 Love is your basic, all-purpose garment
No matter what else you wear, never forget to about the basic, all-purpose garment which should be part of every outfit–LOVE. Wear it every day. Colossians 3:14 (New Living Translation) Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. Colossians 3:14 (The Message) And regardless of what… Read More
Colossians 3:13 Can I change how I respond?
Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Are you positive about people or do you keep a list of their wrongs and your judgments of them? Do someone who hurt you have to say he is sorry before you will forgive them–is your forgiveness dependent on someone else? Does your forgiveness have strings attached? In the… Read More
Do you know how God designed you?
“What you are after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.” (Psalm 51:6, The Message) A brown-headed cowbird egg will always produce a cowbird, never a song sparrow. It can be a healthy, growing cowbird or a sickly one that is full of disease, but it will… Read More
Colossians 3:12 How can you tell if I’m a Christ-follower?
WWJD–What would Jesus do? This expression probably doesn’t have the impact today that it had to many of us when it first was printed on t-shirts, bracelets, necklaces, and billboards. But it is still a question Christ’s followers are called on to make in every situation of every day. And we prepare ourselves to be… Read More
Are you only half awake?
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. Psalm 139:1, (NIV) Learning to know yourself and recognizing God’s design of you is the first step in awakening your spirit. It allows you to drop unhealthy habits and expectations, to leave the past behind, and to step into the life… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 