Tag: boundaries

Where’s the limit?

But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully…

Life as a Reese’s peanut butter cup

It [God’s grace] teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age. -Titus 2:12 (NIV)…

Hurting people hurt people

No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the fruit of peace and righteousness to those who have been trained by it….

Build fences, not walls

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men. It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly…

Unsustainable

He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. -Isaiah 40:29 (NKJV) I write this after long days and nights of…

People pleasing helps no one

Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please…

Productive suffering

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just…

The truth is out there

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. -St. Augustine of Hippo Do not take revenge, my…

Forgiveness and enabling are not the same thing

Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. -Galatians 6:1 Like a city whose walls…