Member Partner
Prayer Request
Top Posts & Pages
Listen to The Podcast
Click to View Teaching Series
-
Tag Archives: Pharisees
Pharisee Alert
I have a built-in Pharisee alert that typically sounds off whenever I throw back to the judgmental, condescending, legalistic attitudes that characterized much of my early Christian experience. You may remember I’m a recovering Pharisee, which means I will never … Continue reading
Getting over plank-eye
Here is how you accept and love other people just as they are, regardless of who they are, or what they have done. You settle, once and for all, the issue of measuring righteousness and comparing your sin with others … Continue reading
How just asking “Who are you?” can change the world
I just found out that one of our 15-year-old son’s friends whom I had pegged in my mind as “Least Likely to Succeed,” is on the varsity tennis team at the high school (he’s the second best player on the … Continue reading
Registered hypocrite
I am a registered hypocrite. I feed on the spiritually weak who need someone to look up to. I try very hard to be that person — to at least appear to be one who is spiritually strong. Because of … Continue reading
Good news for non-religious people
Jesus once warned against trying to patch an old garment with new cloth or put new wine into old wineskins. In the case of the garment, the new unshrunk piece of cloth will tear away from the rest when the … Continue reading
John Fischer The Catch 