Lakes Region church of Christ

We all have preferences, opinions, and desires. Sometimes we are very passionate about our preferences on topics such as the order of the worship service, personal dress, features of a new church building, and many more. While strong preferences are fine, problems arise when we treat opposing opinions as personal affronts. This happens when someone allows their ego to dictate their attitude...

Numerous lessons, articles, books, and classes focus on how the world’s view of love differs from God’s view of love. We know the world’s definition of love does not match God’s definition. Yet we live life constantly bombarded with worldly viewpoints. It is no wonder that we will sometimes fall back on the world’s view of love. One topic in which this often happens is “loving sinners.” In Matthew 5:43-48, Jesus challenges us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us...

Most of us have come upon situations where a person has done something (or many things) that are simply evil. Take abusers, murderers, and those who swindle the elderly, for example. In our righteous indignation, or simple anger, we might wish that those people were dead so that they could not hurt anyone else. Or maybe we wish that someone would inflict on them the same suffering they have caused others... ...is it the way God’s people should conduct themselves?...