Gleaning from my devotions.

Jesus is clear that the words we communicate flow from our hearts and expose our deepest selves.

Gleaning from my devotions.

Our faith is demonstrated primarily by obeying God, especially when the risk is that we will suffer in some form or fashion for our faith.

Gleaning from my devotions.

Faith is a Holy Spirit-empowered internal devotion to God (faith) that produces an external devotion to God (works or fruit).

Gleaning from my devotions.

If we allow our anger to control us, we will not truly listen to people, and we will sin in our anger. 

Gleaning from my devotions.

God’s goal is not that we win the argument, but that we win the person with whom we are arguing. 

Gleaning from my devotions.

We need to watch what we say, when we say it, and how we say it. 

Gleaning from my devotions.

When the Psalmist says we must pass through the valley of the shadow of death, it means we cannot book a flight over it or take the long way around it.