Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

9.1- “Plays well with others.”   is a section of an old time report card. I come from a family of teachers.   Some teach in pre-school and some teach in graduate school.   My grandmother had eight children and many of their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren have been and still are “teachers”.   There is no more honorable job for which people receive “wages”. There is this teaching that everyone who follows Jesus, at some level, is a leader and a teacher, either by word or by example.   I agree with this for we are all called to be salt and light. On the other hand a formal teacher or leader must be a person who has developed his/her teaching by example before their teaching by oral or written words are appropriate. No one has a life without sins.   To be a formal teacher or leader does not mean you are mistake free.   It does mean that you have good character training from your family and friends to be a good so...

8.26- That dream job you think you want will probably not be the same as you think it is when you get there. Find your joy where you are and you will experience contentment immediately. 1 Timothy 6. 6  All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered. 2  Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to the welfare [ a ] of their slaves. False Teachers and the Love of Money These are the things you are to teach and insist on. 3  If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4  they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that re...

8.25- Know Scriptures. Know Jesus. Know God the Father. Know God the Spirit. Know Love. The key to transformation is to know the mercy of God. Luke 7. 36  When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. 37  A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 38  As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them. 39  When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.” 40  Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” “Tell me, teacher,” he said. 41  “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed...