The pathway to a life of joy and gratitude is to imitate Jesus in filling our minds with things which are worthy, honourable, merciful and loving.
The pathway to a life of joy and gratitude is to imitate Jesus in filling our minds with things which are worthy, honourable, merciful and loving.
God blesses us with much more than we need, but instead of throwing away the excess, we are to take what we don’t need and do something with it.
The ten commandments are not a measure of our moral accomplishment, but a gift offered to God by a grateful covenant people.
It’s our place to be within, and part of, creation and to love it as God loves it, and to learn to be ready to stand with others in their place of need.
When we do not live lives of gratitude, which would actually expand our sense of the world in which we live, God still does not rescind his gifts.
If we can lose ourselves in the worship of Christ, then Christ will come to fill our emptied egos with his own self which now dances in the freedom of God.
The experience of resurrection results in joy and mission.
We voluntarily live a vowed life as a grateful response to God’s saving acts.
The gospel calls us on a road to healing and wholeness, but its steps are so deceptively simple (which doesn’t mean easy) that we often don’t take them seriously and so don’t do them.
Praise and prayer enable us to find our true identify in Christ, and it is as we find out who we are that we find our true strength.
What God has done and is doing is cause for celebration.
Christ’s wish is that all people will respond with thankful joy to his offer of holistic healing and growth – physical, emotional, social.
God will entrust us with more when we have proved trustworthy with what we have been given.
God’s grace is extravagant and should inspire celebration (but often inspires grudging).