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DISCover Yourself and Others
This 8-session Bible-based video series, DISCover Yourself and Others, will open a world of opportunity, by revealing how you can build stronger, healthier relationships.
Using a highly-effective personality discovery tool, Martin Deacon will help you learn about your own unique strengths and weaknesses that you bring to every relationship and task. You’ll improve relationships and recognize how God has given you the freedom to be exactly who you are made to be.
In an entertaining and enjoyable way, you will gain an understanding of those you regularly interact with, recognize why they behave the way they do and discover what is motivating…
How Should We Respond?
For most of us, a stranger is simply a person we’ve never met before. As awkward as it can be to start a friendship with a newcomer, once we do, the term stranger no longer applies.
But there is a second type of stranger. These people are strangers not just because we don’t yet know them, but because we have…
God’s Welcome For Us
We see God’s attitude towards strangers most clearly when we look at what He has done for each of us. Jesus left His home in heaven to become a stranger on earth.
In fact, soon after Jesus was born, Joseph was commanded to take his family, flee the persecution in their home country and find refuge in Egypt. Jesus, Mary and…
Welcoming The Stranger
What is it to share Jesus with a stranger? Is it just giving them a pass to heaven and wishing them well on their way? No. Of course, Jesus did come to offer salvation to everyone. But that salvation is much more than just a golden ticket. It is about belonging to God and doing His work in this world…
Living As Strangers
National culture, personal safety, identity, social standing and upbringing can all easily become idols which shape our opinions and views of others. Judging others by these things will only highlight the differences between us, making us feel either fearful or superior towards them. But we no longer belong to the standards of this world.
Now, as heavenly citizens, we have…
God’s Welcome For Strangers
Throughout the Bible, God makes His welcome towards strangers unmistakably clear. One key example of this is how God instructed His people Israel to treat the foreigners who lived amongst them.
The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. —Leviticus 19:34
God…
Responding to God
As we listen to God, we should answer. This is prayer—our response to the revelation and unfolding of God’s heart. “My God, Thy creature answers Thee,” said the French poet, Alfred de Musset. Prayer, understood in that way, is an extension of our visits with God rather than something tacked on.
Our meetings with God are like a polite conversation…
Listening to God
Until we take time to be quiet we’ll not hear God. God cannot be heard in noise and restlessness; only in silence. He will speak to us if we will give Him a chance, if we will listen, if we will be quiet. “Be still,” the psalmist wrote, “and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).
“Listen, listen to me,” God…
Time Alone with God
“Begin small and start promptly” is an old Quaker saying. The idea is to keep things simple and to begin soon. Simplicity begins with solitude—not mere time alone, but time alone with God. Henri Nouwen wrote: “Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and Him alone. If we really believe not only that God exists, but that He…
Rest and Renewal
Left to ourselves we would have nothing more than restlessness, driven by the realization that there is something more to know and love. But God will not leave us to ourselves.
According to Psalm 23:2, He makes us lie down in green pastures. He leads us beside quiet waters. The verbs suggest gentle persuasion—a shepherd patiently, persistently encouraging his sheep to…
70X7: Finding Peace by Forgiving Others…And Yourself
Something happened. It might have been yesterday. It might have been years ago. But it hurt. And it changed you. And unless you forgive those who wronged you, the heart wound will become infected and spread. Eventually, you can become a prisoner of your own wounded heart.
If the story ended here, you would be hurt beyond healing. But the Good News is, it is not finished.
In his creative, story-driven, highly motivating style, Bruce reveals from the words of Jesus Christ how you can find the freedom and peace your heart longs for.
Discover forgiveness that is for real and forever.
This course…
Who Is God?
Most of us have no clear picture of the God we long to worship. Our image of Him is clouded by the memory of cold cathedrals and bitter religions, by pastors or priests who put the fear of God into us, or by all that we suffered as children from fathers who were absent, emotionally detached, brutal, or weak. All…
She Sells Ban Mian
Finding Hope When All Seems Lost
The End of Suffering
“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” (C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain)
While suffering is unfortunately the common denominator of life in this present world, pain and suffering will have no place in the world…
Where Is God?
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? (C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)
Barbara Brown Taylor…
