Consider this

 If you do not know this, you need to. If you do, you need to share it.  

           I am selfish and like to be left alone! There, I said it.   I want to do my own things, in my own time, in my own way.   I do not want to rearrange my whole day to help others.   Given the choice, I would spend every day off working in my garage by myself.   My idea of a great holiday includes an island in the middle of a lake in northern Saskatchewan, a canoe, a tent and silence. However, there are two problems with that sort of thinking.   First, many people have gone out of their way to help me over the years.   Tons of people put their own selfish desires to the side so that they could help me and teach me things that I did not know. Had they acted selfishly, I do not know how my life would have turned out.   Second, and more importantly, Jesus showed up!   John begins his gospel by remin

 Joy rests on perspective. Are you looking at what you have, or what you lack? Are you looking at how far you have come, or how far you have to go? At the start of Ephesians, Paul gives us some unchanging reasons to rejoice.  

 The fact that I struggled to explain this (and, in the end, did not do very well) is likely a sign that we do not talk about this enough. Sin is more than just one wrong action. It is forgetting who we are and who we are becoming.  

               Their stories could not have been more different from one another.   One was a man, the other a woman.   One is named, the other is anonymous.   One was from the city, the other the country.   One story happened in the dark of night and the other in the bright sunshine of mid-day.   One was proudly Jewish and the other was from a mixed-race background.   One was highly respected and honoured in society and the other was shamed and shunned.   Both had a conversation with Jesus. However, one visit was initiated by the person and the other by Jesus himself.   One conversation began with a spiritual question and the other with a question about something as mundane as a drink of water.                  I do not think it is a coincidence that the story of Nicodemus coming to Jesus at night (John 3) and the story of the Samaritan wo

 The transitions of life remind us that nothing lasts forever.... not even this life.  Keeping the end in mind helps us live in the blessings of God now.  

 If you want to change something, you must start with your thinking. Here is a thought that we need to adopt in order to follow Christ well.