Do you consider yourself a good listener? James writes: “Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry…(1:19). I’d appreciate hearing any thoughts you have about what you think makes for a good listener (or, for that matter, a poor listener).
I’m going to end this series of posts about friendship with Jesus by saying a word about suffering. While “suffering” may seem too big a word to include many of the relatively minor hassles and irritants in our lives, even these lesser interruptions can be unrelenting and disruptive enough to make our days depressing and our relationship with [...]
I’d like you to pay attention to something today.
Everything.
Bill Donahue, in his book, In the Company of Jesus, tells the following experience he had in a seventh-grade science class:
One of the things we look for in a friend is someone who will accept us as we are and love us no matter what. Is Jesus that kind of friend? Does he really love us or is he just putting up with us? Does he seem distant a lot of the time because he’s [...]
God talks to his friends. God called Abraham his friend (II Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8; James 2:23), and talked to him. Moses was also a friend of God, and God talked to him: ”The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend” (Exodus 33:11). Apparently, if we want to “hear” [...]
“I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you” (John 15:15). Other pressing matters led to my getting a late start on this post this morning. So I’ll just introduce [...]
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