I’ve been reflecting back on a conversation I was involved with early this week. There was a particular position that was held quite strongly. The way that position was presented is what got me to thinking. When I hold a position or view quite strongly I tend to try to make the other person accept [...]
Entries from November 21st, 2009
Telling or Selling
November 21st, 2009 No Comments
Tags: controlling · discuss · offering · reason together · resist · Selling · telling · told · truth
More on our relationship with God
November 13th, 2009 No Comments
Back in June I wrote a blog on our relationship with God. I wrote about the stages of that relationship. Here is a portion of that blog. 1. No relationship – unaware that God offers one.2. Antagonistic – resisting or even fighting God’s seeking us.3. Accepting, surrendering – Receiving Christ as savior, being adopted [...]
Tags: bride · bridegroom · John Eldredge · lover · master · relationship with God · servant
Wisdom with Compassion
November 6th, 2009 No Comments
As I enter this stage of my life I’m listening to discern what it will be like. I don’t sense so much that there are new mountains to be climbed or great enterprises to be won. There is more a sense of “being there” for family and others, to come along side of more than [...]
Tags: being there · compassion · Fathered by God · graciousness · humility · John Eldredge · king · sage · tenderness · warrior · wisdom · Wisdom with Compassion · wise