Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Where Everybody Knows Your Name Probably some of you remember the 1980s sitcom Cheers. The music theme, written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo, was “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”. It goes like this: Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got. Taking a break from all your worries, sure would […]
One Another – Living in Community – What We Should NOT Do to One Another
Jesus called us to follow Him, and this call has implications not only in our personal life but also in our life in community. He did not call us to follow Him alone, He called others to walk with us in this journey. Some of them were called way before us, and they are in […]
One Another – Living in Community – Pray for One Another
One of the things that I have learned in my ministry is that people have difficulties, not only speaking in public, but also praying in public. I am no different from them; at least I was not. I remember my first experience praying in public; it was terrifying. I was a new disciple of Christ […]
One Another – Living in Community Spur One Another
Political Correctness has dominated our society in the last years. Now we need to be very careful, not only with what we do, but principally with what we say. This applies even in small groups like family and church. The question is how far should we go to challenge or encourage our brothers and sisters […]
One Another – Living in Community – Confess Your Sins to One Another
Matthew Henry wrote: “The Christian religion is the religion of sinners, of such as have sinned, and in whom sin in some measure still dwells. The Christian life is a life of continued repentance, humiliation for and mortification of sin, of continual faith in, thankfulness for, and love to the Redeemer, and hopeful joyful expectation […]
One Another – Living in Community – Bear One Another
“I just cannot stand that brother!”, “She is unbearable, I give up!” How many times have you heard this? How many times have you said this? There are brothers and sisters in our church or community of faith who are beyond our ability with which to deal and have fellowship. We just can’t. This kind […]
One Another – Living in Community – Build Up and Instruct One Another
Have you ever felt that people in the church looked down on you? Maybe when you are in a Bible study or in Sunday school you feel that you have nothing to add. You do not know many Bible verses by heart. You do not have any extraordinary experiences. You do not even like to […]
One Another – Living in Community Serve one Another
We are living in a time when people expect to be served. As I said before, our children believe that the world revolves around them. They expect to be served in every area of their lives. They expect their parents to serve them, their teachers to serve them, their churches and pastors to serve them, […]
One Another – Living in Community – Submit to one Another
Everyday on TV we watch people demonstrating on the streets demanding their rights and wanting everybody, including the police officers to submit to their demands. Our children are growing up with a king and queen mentality. They want to be in control, and, unfortunately not only the parents but the whole society is feeding this […]
One Another – Living in Community – Offer Hospitality to one Another
In our Western civilization, friendly greetings between people are greatly diminishing. Today people greet each other with a simple “Hi”, and sometimes they just nod the head and move the eyes. Many times the words are not even pronounced correctly. In some parts of the country we can hear people saying: “Wassap?!?”, “Yo!”, “Hi”, “How […]