In Forgiving Jesus was free from any burden, any anger, free from grudges He might hold against those who hurt Him.

It’s easy for me to replace Jesus for love, but not so easy to replace me, because in practice I am often not patient, I sometimes envy, and I have been known to keep a record of wrongs, and on and on it goes.

Religion for a dead man is like putting lipstick on a corpse. It might look better, but it's still expired.

The people who God was speaking about in this passage were some of the most unfaithful people as a group that the World has ever known.

He has been leading sheep to good land, but now God wants him to lead His people to the Promised Land.

Let’s not be buried by our sin, but continue to be over-comers through the power of the Holy Spirit as we walk in the light of His love and forgiveness.

This individual may even tell about how the Lord is leading him in a particular direction, but his life is a series of false starts and unrealized dreams. He believes his own words, but his religion, as James says, is useless and empty.

That’s what love is, it’s patient. It’s a dirty job. It means I stay when the feelings are gone, with the hope that they will return, because long ago I chose to love.

Worship is not like going to an Italian Restaurant one week and to a French Restaurant the next to experience the different flavors of each.

Some leaders have monetized faith, exhorting believers to speak material blessings into being, as if The Lord was a genie waiting to grant our every wish.