Two Sizes Too Big

I need to expand my heart. I have to be like Jesus, and look past the outward appearance, and see people from the heart. To do that, I need to make three choices. First, I have to choose loving over labeling. Simon was a labeler. He was a religious guy, and religious people are the [...]

 

A Heart Exposed

In Ezekiel 36:26 it says, “And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.” A ‘tender responsive heart.’ It’s the kind of heart I need to build extravagant relationships. I have to [...]

 

Know My Heart

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalms 139:23-24 In Luke 7:36-50, the woman with the alabaster jar of perfume saw her need clearly, but Simon didn’t see his need at all. [...]

 

Missions – Charmaine’s Story

It has been over a month since Hurricane Sandy battered the New York and New Jersey coastlines. Residents are slowly beginning to piece their lives back together. Slowly. Charmaine, a single mother of an 11 year old daughter, is doing what she can to recover from the superstorm that rocked her home and community in the Rockaways, the southern most [...]

 

Inner Extravagance

“When a certain immoral woman from that city heard He was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. Then she knelt behind Him at His feet, weeping. Her tears fell on His feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing His feet and putting perfume [...]