August 24, 2021
If we are going to bear the fruit of goodness in through our lives: if we are going to be a blessing to others – to bless them with God’s kind of mercy, God’s kind of grace, God’s extravagant and enthusiastic generosity and kindness – then we need to not just understand God’s goodness but receive God’s goodness.
August 1, 2021
The Christian is not to be characterized as someone who takes, but as someone who gives. After all, “God so loved the world that He gave His One and only Son, that whoever believes in Him might not perish, but have eternal life!” Giving to help others is what makes us like God. God is a good and generous God. He gave His best for us. So the point here is not so much as to be useful, but to be useful for the sake of others – to give to help others in need.
March 11, 2021
God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. That’s what God’s grace does! When God’s grace takes hold in your heart, it makes you a gracious person. Giving becomes second nature. You want to give. You want to help because God has helped you!
August 23, 2020
This is what the grace of God teaches us: There is no limit to God’s grace to us in Christ Jesus. God has an endless fountain of grace to pour out on us in Christ. Jesus is sufficient for us. Jesus is all we need. For it is in Jesus whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, grace and mercy, life and peace, hope and glory.
December 24, 2017
at the heart of every Christ follower is this driving passion to follow Jesus – this devotion to the apostle’s teaching. And they followed Jesus together. They went to the Temple courts to hear messages about Jesus. They met together in their homes to memorize the stories of Jesus. Everything about the early church was founded on their passion for Jesus… They couldn’t get enough of Jesus! Can that be said of us?
September 21, 2017
There is only one true motive for extravagant generosity, and God has shown us what that is: Out of the abundance of love in His heart, God gave His all for us. That’s why love is at the heart of extravagant generosity. That’s why love must be the motive for why we give of our time, or our treasures or our talents, or ourselves. All other motives are temporal. They won’t last. But love never fails.
June 5, 2016
By giving Lot his choice of territory and accepting the outcome, Abram had a humble perspective on his prosperity. He knew that all he had acquired had come from the Lord. Abram was content in his faith and it freed him to be generous.
May 21, 2016
Our forgiveness of others is what makes us most like Jesus. That’s why Jesus wants us to pray this way. He wants us to treat others the same way He has treated us. Think of it this way:The price God paid to forgive you is the same price He paid to forgive the person who wronged you.