The 2 Greatest

What a ride!  Thanks for 5 complete years of T2G.  And yet we are NEVER finished being loved by God and loving Him back as we love others.  T2G now and into forever!

Sometimes life feels like your running across the Sahara barefoot looking for water.  May God help us FINISH WELL.

Loving others doesn't have to be HARD all the time.  It's not just BIG INCONVENIENT acts we don't want to do but know Jesus wants us to.  Loving can be FUN!

What would throwing darts at your enemies look like for you?  The cold shoulder?  Gossip? Mocking?  Being passive aggressive? Other?  

It's hard to love someone with Alzheimer's Disease.  How do you love someone who doesn't remember you?  Let's talk about a difficult side of T2G today.

An ugly person is a person all about himself or herself.  And it's worse when it's a person of God.

Is the Bible God's Word or Human Words?  How to the two interact?  If we don't get this right, we quickly fall into heresy.  

Sometimes we read a Bible verse, and it's directed to us, but we're not sure HOW to do it.  One of those might be for you "be filled with the Spirit."  What does that mean and how do we do it?  Let's talk!

The people we hang around and allow access to our heart and mind WILL shape us into the kind of people we will become, so choose wisely!

When we measure success FORWARD we are alway reaching and never grasping, we are in the GAP.  When we measure success BACKWARDS we are seeing how far we've come and we live in the GAIN.

How can something so small be so very dangerous?  Yet that is the power of YOUR tongue!

Where's the line between caring and intruding?  How can we love without sticking our nose where it doesn't belong.  Some practice steps today.

Oh the church, the bride of Jesus, the people of God.  So beautiful and so broken.  May be be a window, not a mirror.

It's so wonderful when God sends just the right person at the right time to us.  May He help us appreciate His provision.

Expectations and make us or break us.  They effect our attitudes and actions and can express or repress our ability to love.

How would you finish the sentence:  YOU ARE WHAT YOU....?"  The Bible gives us a clear answer and some clear instructions when it comes to what determines what we become.  Listen in!

How would you define "faith?"  If you think it's just what you think, you've misdefined it and are missing the point entirely.

There's some stuff in the Bible that is weird to us.  It's strange because it's written to them, not us--in a different culture, under a different covenant. BUT there's some good nuggets for us to enjoy and apply--including your ear, your thumb and your big toe!

Is it okay for Christians to "love themselves?"  Well, yes, of course--rightly understand and applied, that's exactly how we are able to love others.

There IS a moment when transformation starts.  Do you know when that is?  Let me tell you today.

They ARE real and WE are curious.  But when do we cross the line into focusing on them instead of the Lord?

It's painful to say goodbye.  How can we do it well?

There's something that happens between someone's action and your reaction.  It's the story you tell yourself.

The grass IS greener...but WHERE?  How would you answer that question.  You answer will determine the quality of your relationships.

Tech isn't going anywhere--it's going EVERYWHERE, faster and further than ever before.  But is it a good thing or a dangerous thing?  How do we live as Christians in the technology tension?

What do factors will have the biggest impact on the person you will be in five years?  Let's talk AND begin to take action!

It's one thing to do what is required; it's quite another to go the extra mile in the name of love!

It's not a building.  It's not a program.  It's not a Sunday show.  It's not a business.  But what IS it?

Please don't take for granted your sense of smell.  I lost it, got it back and am thankful for it.  But also don't forget that YOU SMELL, I mean others smell YOU.  What do you smell like?  Jesus?

How much of your emotional energy do you spend fretting and stewing and worrying over OTHER PEOPLE'S choices that YOU can't control?  What if we just LET THEM?

Some people, including me, use some prayers that were written by others to express my heart to the Lord.  Can we find support for THAT kind of praying in the scriptures?

Would God cause someone to resist him just so he could punish that person for rebellion?  How is that fair?  Is that what's going on with Pharaoh?  Let's look deeper.

Does your Bible Study consist of just an encouraging "verse of the day" or even a daily chapter reading a day?  Do you, can you, should you go deeper because READING and STUDYING are NOT the same!

We often use the word "hospitality" but I don't think we use it in the same way the bible does.  Let's look deeper.

Oh the temptation to constantly care about what others think of us.  But are we living for THEM or for the Lord?  Let's talk about impression management.

Jesus gives up on NO ONE.  And in fact he ofter seeks out the very people we are tempted to believer are forever lost.  Thanks be to God!

There are moments where LOCATION and LANGUAGE come together to create a powerful, unforgettable experience.  That's the case with PETER AND PAN! 

We are a distracted people.  Yet how much more could we give and receive love if we only learned to pay attention?

Ohhhhh our STUFF.  What should our relationship to our stuff be?  Is there a principle that will guide us?  YES!

One of THE most difficult postures to hold in life is the posture of contentment.  In fact, society is BUILT on YOU NOT BEING CONTENT. God has a much better idea.  Today, maybe a story will help!

What's the purpose for in person church gatherings?  How you answer that question is important when it comes to the satisfaction you get when you're there and the contribution you make in the lives of others.  Does your reason for gathering match what the Bible says?

What's a great illustration of TRUST?  How about a trust lesson from a cat?

One of the most loving things you can do is to be keenly aware of how your decisions affect those around you.

There is a direct line, a connection between your VALUES and your LIFE.  What you SAY you believe needs to be confirmed and demonstrated by how you practice those values moment by moment.  Don't let their be a breach in your walls.

It's easy to get lost in this old world.  The evil one wants to pull us way from the things of God. When we drift, what can bring us back to our TRUE NORTH?

Bitterness is so subtle, so slow growing and so very dangerous.  If you allow it to go untreated it can destroy your life and the lives of those you care about the most.

Jesus promised, by his Spirit, he'd ALWAYS be with us.  Does that comfort you or freak you out?

When we go through hard times the devil wants us to believe we're unique, alone, and forgotten.  The Bible says otherwise!

Turn the other cheek assumes you're been hit once already and are volunteering for another blow.  What's that all about?

What IS the "Old Testament" and what role does it play in the life of a Christian today?

Jesus was a story teller, but why?  What was the reason behind the stories he told and are we taking them a bit to loosely?