Do you act primarily based on your principled beliefs/convictions OR is your behavior primarily an expression of your character? In Jesus day, the Pharisees were keen on keeping the “rules”,…
His Bondservant Posts
The writer to the letter to the Hebrews says: “….let us also lay aside every encumbrance [or weight] and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run…
In Paul’s letter to the church at Corinth he says this: “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run but only one receives the prize?…
In Romans 12:11, the Apostle Paul says: “Not lagging behind in diligence [but] fervent in spirit, serving the Lord“. Maintaining wisdom-guided zeal for God, His person and purposes, is sometimes…
Memories. Sometimes they are a source of great joy, thankfulness, satisfaction, even pride. Other times a source of regret, grief, anguish, and sorrow upon sorrow. As you look in the…
“What a scandalous, even ridiculous idea”, the skeptic would say. “God is transcendent, far above His created universe to ever be considered to have willingly condescended to assume the role…
In my last blog post I attempted to show that part of our calling as Christ’s slave is to be “on-loan” to other persons, to serve them. And serving them…
A bondservant of Christ is continuing to learn how to abandon and even avoid seeking and living for the praise and recognition of others, but to instead focus on living…
One of the difficulties most of us have growing up and functioning as adult Christ-followers, is how to avoid our emotions from controlling our life decisions, even sometimes the small…
In my last post I mentioned the importance offering well-earned praise to others that we encounter in our daily life. This of course becomes an important “tool” to a teacher,…
My last blog post discussed the issue of the problem we humans have in being possessed of a [typically] quite strong desire for the praise/recognition or approval of other humans.…
It will likely take several posts on this topic to more fully express/explain my understanding of a very important character quality or trait of a bond-servant of Christ. This particular…