A Different Love! Does Perfect Love have some really strange ways compared to human love? Why is this important and in fact vital to understand for a life worth living? “Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, […]
For the Jew and for any religious person, life was and is built on keeping a strict legal or moral code – basically adherence to the law or code provides some peace of mind built on performance. For the GraceFull it’s different and that is why the early church was so persecuted. […]
Love … its a word, and like every other word we have our own mental picture or idea of what it is, what it looks like and how it functions in our world. Other words like “all” and “God” also carry mental pictures and images and definitions that are very individual and personal. […]
Love that is real is based on a growing desire to be around the one who I desire because they have traits and personality and characteristics that I enjoy. Love that is Real is based on a connection of souls. If the love is actually lust it is based on some sort of payment or […]
In a world where so precious few people actually understand each other and get along, I always find it odd at best when people tell me they understand GOD better than others. “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” – Romans 11:34 The mind […]
Its always funny asking a group of Americans about a current US president. Especially if the group is mixed conservative and liberal, democrat and republican, religious and secular. The thoughts and opinions seem to take on a life of there own. If this is true about a man who is seen and observed and recorded […]
Why do we fear and or run from Love? 1) It exposes need or lack … this comes from religious law and it does a Very good job of it. 2) It breaks comfortable defenses … this is The Gift of Grace and the Journey of a Lifetime IF you take it. […]
Spiritual Diet … 4 … GIGO … Good In Good Out For the next few devotionals we will be examining what is “Good” based on Grace as I know it and have come to see it. Another abbreviation of GIGO for me is “Gospel In Gospel Out.” The reason I bring this up […]
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Spiritual Diet … 3 … The “New Wine” If we “Believe” we are changed, in that instance, from a “doing state” to a “Being state” we ARE CHANGED. This is what religion missed then and still misses now. “Doing” = law. “Being” = Grace. “Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are […]