Does the way we respond when we are faced with accusation line up with Romans 12:18 that challenges us to do all we can possibly do to live at peace with those around us? The Eastern Tribes of Israel gives us an example of what this could look like in Joshua 22.
We hate to wait. Our flesh and our culture tell us that if we are waiting, something must be wrong. Then our tendency is to take matters into our own hands just like the Israelites did in Exodus 32. But God uses waiting and tells us in Isaiah 40:31 that strength grows when we wait [โฆ]
Jesus addresses our tendency to look horizontally twice in the Gospels. Spec spotting is a tempting hobby, but it divides our energy and compromises our effectiveness for the kingdom of God.
Broken relationships and betrayal are hard realities of our fallen world. We know that we are called to forgive others as we have been forgiven, but how can we live in that forgiveness when the heaviness of it overwhelms our spirit? Joseph experienced tender betrayal from his own family and lived out forgiveness to them [โฆ]