GraceNotes

When my heart has become like God’s heart, I will be more a forgiver and less a judge.

Sometimes it’s tough being a grapevine branch during pruning season! But don’t give up! Fruit-bearing season is coming again soon!

If the Lion of Judah had not been willing to become the Lamb of God, we would all still be without hope, trapped under the crushing weight of our sin. 

The Spirit took John to heaven and showed him the glory of God and the things that were going to happen in the future.

Jesus knows all the things I do.

Jesus is calling you and me back to the simplicity of our first love and of loving first.

Do I acknowledge that Christ-followers whose expression of their faith differs from mine are part of the same Kingdom?

Here’s what Dear Friends and Good Friends think and feel and say to each other (and pray for each other)…

For right now…we have three things to do…: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

God is the only one who rightly occupies the place of reverence, adoration, ultimate defender and provider in the human heart, and anything that takes his place is an idol!