A GOOD WORD: This Christmas season, I hope your pace of life does not make you out of sync with the real Christmas. I appeal to you to stop, slow down, and take a break if this season speeds you up too much.
While the cultural Christmas can be fun, it is not that vital. Christmas is one of many things in our lives that can direct us to the gospel, but if the cultural Christmas interferes with that, we must reconsider the purposes of our activities.
Our busyness needs recalibration if our activities do not point us to the Savior. https://lifeovercoffee.com/enjoying-the-cultural-and-the-christian-christmas/
The shocking and inspiring story of Sophie Ottaway.
Watch the full interview here: https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-490-sophie-ottaway-engineered-at-birth-to-be-a-girl/
Focus on the Cause, not the Effect, so you can remove the cause and not be affected by the effect.
A local church’s worship value is not primarily about the music but the lifestyle because you never ask, “Are you worshiping?” The reason is that we worship all the time. God made us for worship—wired us for worship, you could say.
Worship is part of what it means to be image-bearers. Who could do otherwise? The better question is, “What or whom do we worship?” https://lifeovercoffee.com/three-characteristics-of-a-fantastic-local-church/
Whenever a person chooses sinful anger, he is, in effect, giving the other person control over him. It’s counterintuitive. In his anger, he is like a marionette, a puppet on a string.
Anger toward someone is the total submission of their thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors to the other person. It is not self-control, as governed by the Spirit of God, but someone out of control or under the control of another spirit. https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-110-help-for-the-angry-person/
