Would you consider floggings, and rejection by his peers and family a life of comfort and ease? Maybe this idea of coming to Jesus in order to find and easy life hasn’t told us the Gospel truth.

Would you consider floggings, and rejection by his peers and family a life of comfort and ease? Maybe this idea of coming to Jesus in order to find and easy life hasn’t told us the Gospel truth.

Have you ever competed in a tug of war? Your triceps begin to shake and you don’t think you can hold on. Suddenly someone from the crowd yells for you to pull harder. Why don’t they top cheering and start pulling? You may have felt this same frustration in your work for the Lord. How can we learn not to get mad and quit but instead, help people to move out of the stands into the front lines of active service?

Maybe when you think about your roots there were some bad decisions. Does this mean that you are locked into a life of failure?

Have you ever competed in a tug of war? Your triceps begin to shake and you don’t think you can hold on. Suddenly someone from the crowd yells for you to pull harder. Why don’t they top cheering and start pulling? You may have felt this same frustration in your work for the Lord. How can we learn not to get mad and quit but instead, help people to move out of the stands into the front lines of active service?

Have you ever considered that possibly you have settled for a nice comfortable snooze in your spiritual life when God wants you to wake up and get going?

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Abandon the packaged “Sound Bites” and force your ears to listen. Let’s get at the very heart of where our moral decisions come from.