How to have strong opinions and be humble too – How to interact with people who view the world differently than you, Part 5

In the first post in this series, I talked about unity as Christians agreeing on top tier issues.  What are top tier issues? That God is father, son and Holy Spirit, and that it is only through God the Son, Jesus’ birth, life, death and resurrection that sin, death and the devil are defeated, andContinue reading “How to have strong opinions and be humble too – How to interact with people who view the world differently than you, Part 5”

How Christian worship can become idolatry – Ezekiel 6, Part 4

“That’s not worship!” The person saying this to me was sitting across the table from me, while we were having a worship meeting in our church conference room. The person was a long-time member of the church, and they were upset. We had been experimenting with worship, and they declared that one of the experimentsContinue reading “How Christian worship can become idolatry – Ezekiel 6, Part 4”

How to transform an over-opinionated, judgmental spirit? THE 10th MAN! – Luke 6:37-42

Last week I introduced Jesus’ next crazy Upside-Down Kingdom teaching.  Simply put, he gave us two negatives that should be transformed into to two positives. “Do not judge and do not condemn” should change to “forgive and give.” Instead of being negative-minded about people, we need to be generous toward them, forgiving them. So inContinue reading “How to transform an over-opinionated, judgmental spirit? THE 10th MAN! – Luke 6:37-42”

Are you opinionated?

Opinions. We have lots of them, don’t we? Some of us seem to have more opinions than others! Have you ever thought of that? Why do some people have more opinions than others? And why do some people have strong opinions while others have weak opinions?   Some people seem to have strong opinions about almostContinue reading “Are you opinionated?”