Solomon says that boldness is the trait of the righteous and the redeemed and fleeing is the trait of the wicked and the damned. Here’s a little interesting observation: You don’t see Jesus fleeing when pursued by religious or political idiots or even Satan himself (Mark 1:13; Matthew 23:1-36). Matter of fact, and far from fleeing, Jesus regularly got up in their grill when they went full retard in His presence. Same thing with John the...

What will the future bring? It’s the same question everyone should ask themselves, which is: What am I going to do? What’s my plan? You can’t just wing it. You must focus on what is within your control. You can’t expect to know what is in your control if you don’t take the time now to consider it. However, not everything is within our control. “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there...

From the book Relational Holiness – Responding to the Call of Love by Thomas J. Oord and Michael Lodahl Christian perfection is, in its essence, perfection in love. There is a difference between knowing something and acting on that knowledge. As we defined earlier, love is “To act intentionally, in response to God and others, to promote well-being.” Knowing this definition of love differs greatly from actually loving someone. “A...