What three words would you use to describe yourself? Try to summarize your purpose, your goals, and the significance of your life in only three words.
Weekly Wisdom
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Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Today is all we have. What we do with it is our choice.
In Jesus, we see not just the fact of his humanity, or his connection to nature and earth, but a picture of God.
When our circumstances become uncomfortable and difficult, it’s easy to trade trust in Jesus for panic and disbelief.
Jesus summarizes 1,500 years of Scripture in just one sentence: “Do to others what you would have them do to you.”
Jesus told his followers they would do even greater things than he did. Imagine how inspiring that would have been.
Jesus said that he gives not as the world gives—with an eye to a result or a product—but for love, for comfort in the middle of life’s struggles and failures.
When you put your faith in Jesus and trust him by living according to his Word, you will find yourself filled with a never-dying hope.
In John 15, Jesus teaches that our lives have weak batteries, and if we don’t stay plugged into him then we’re not going to produce the fruit we’re created for.
William Wilberforce, a great abolitionist and leader, wrote a passionate letter to his fifteen-year-old daughter to share the wisdom he had learned through his many years of fighting for the anti-slavery movement in Britain.
We all carry baggage. Bad things happen to us and we feel shame; the baggage gets heavier. We lie about something; it gets bulkier. Our selfish reaction hurts someone we love; it’s like we added a bag of cement to our shoulders.