What is the true purpose of your relationships? We often leverage connections with our friends, business associates, spouses, and children for our benefit only. John offered a different way, one that would allow the flow of the Holy Spirit into our relationships: “We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ […]
Restored Relationships
Leading the People Pleaser through Listening
Leading the Complainer Through Listening
Compartmentalizing God
Have you compartmentalized God? We often limit God to a particular worship style, in a specific building, during one hour, on a certain day of the week, or even a quiet time, a Bible study, or a small group. Then we take control of the other 167 hours of the week. Mankind has been doing […]
Satisfaction through Surrender – Part 1
Matthew 5:3-6 Where do you go to satisfy your desires? Listen to Mitch’s latest radio show on WBCL. Click to download worksheet.
Leading The Aggressive Through Listening
Captive Thoughts
What dominates your thoughts? The apostle Paul wrote: “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). The problem is pretense that we can be god in our own lives. Through the prophet Jeremiah, […]
Leading Difficult People Through Listening
Auction Stories with Dean & Stuart Kruse
Outlets
What is your outlet? At first, you might describe a hobby or a hideaway, if anything at all, but God designed us to have outlets for His restoration to flow to others. Everything in the Dead Sea dies because it has no outlet. Contrasted, the Sea of Galilee brings life because its outlet allows it […]