Treasured Truth

In our relationships, we want to be able to get along, to understand each other, to be able to communicate something to someone and to be able to understand exactly what they’re saying and where they’re coming from.  Find out some tips about how to do all of that on today’s Treasured Truth.

Some things that happen to us can seem unforgivable.  Pastor Ford reminds us today that Jesus has done everything necessary for us to be able to forgive, and so we should always be ready to forgive others.

Sometimes we need to try and connect to how a person is feeling.  If they’re feeling a certain way, they feel that way, simply because they feel that way.  So, sometimes we need to connect to that and understand there are some things that may be going on that we just can’t solve.

Pastor Ford will urge us to understand that we ought not deprecate how another person feels.  We should let them express their feelings.  And then when we communicate, we must own our feelings.  We shouldn’t say, “You did this to me.” Instead, we should say, “What you did made me feel this way.”

The elements of communication include tone, body language and words.  And Pastor Ford will explain today that if your attitude is bad, then you can assume that your body language, your tone and your words, may not be fit for good communication.

Why do we walk by faith and not by sight? Because we see in the present what God has done for us in the past, that assures for us a blessing in our future.

Faith lets us live in the right now, but believe in the not yet.  That’s because we understand that faith moves us from insufficiency to sufficiency, because of Christ’s all-sufficiency.

Pastor Ford points out today that it’s cheaper to forgive, because it saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred and the waste of time.  To hear more about the expense of being unforgiving, join us for today’s Treasured Truth.

Believers can have confidence that the tragedy of death has been overcome.  And in His resurrection, Christ is the “first fruits” of those who will be raised from the dead.  Pastor Ford explains that although death can seem tragic, for the believer, it’s really just transportation from this life to the next.

As we continue this message from Matthew 27, Pastor Ford wants us to realize that God provides for us even through the tragedies in our lives.  It’s easy to not see how sometimes, but God can turn tragedies into triumphs.  How can we know that’s true?  Because all things work together for those who love God and are called according to His purpose.