Little Messages with Big Impact
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” — Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV) There is a meaningful difference between managing anger through sheer willpower and managing it through genuine spiritual transformation, and…
“Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.” — James 1:19 (NIV) Anger rarely arrives as a freestanding emotion, complete in itself and requiring no further investigation. It is, far more often, a surface…
“In your anger do not sin: do not let the sun go down while you are still angry.” — Ephesians 4:26 (NIV) Managing anger biblically begins with a step that sounds almost too simple to mention, yet remains, in practice,…
“You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgement.” — Matthew 5:21-22 (NIV) Jesus’s…
“The Lord disciplines the one he loves, as a father the son he delights in.” — Hebrews 12:6 (NIV) Discipline is frequently misunderstood as the opposite of love, a necessary unpleasantness imposed despite affection rather than because of it. Scripture…
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” — 1 John 3:1 (NIV) Love, in scripture, is never left as an abstract sentiment. It is consistently described in active, demonstrable…
“The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.” — Psalm 145:18 (ESV) The key to understanding both how to honour our parents and how to parent our own children, is…
“Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.” — Exodus 20:12 (ESV) Every other commandment in the Decalogue addresses a category of behaviour that remains relevant…
“Be still, and know that I am God.” — Psalm 46:10 (NIV) Today, many people worship their work, they work at their play, and they play at their worship. Read that sentence slowly, because it describes a specific kind of…
“He leads me beside quiet waters; he restores my soul.” — Psalm 23:2-3 (NIV) Genesis records something that, on first read, seems almost unnecessary: God rested on the seventh day. The God who spoke galaxies into existence with a word,…