Don’t Give a Bad Attitude Along with Your Offering

Prepare your gift with a willing heart, and give joyfully—because not only will your offering enrich the lives of others, but even more importantly, it will be pleasing to God.

There’s nothing worse than receiving a gift from someone who clearly didn’t want to give it. Maybe they felt obligated, or perhaps they were simply following the old “reciprocal gift” rule—giving something back just because they felt they had to. Whatever the reason, their attitude makes the gesture feel empty, leaving you feeling like an […]

Lord, Help Me Be Kind When I Don’t Want To!

Be kind! Especially when everything in you screams to react in anger, be kind. Ask yourself, what is lying behind that internal outrage?

Years ago, while helping to lead a children’s outreach with Youth With a Mission, I learned a children’s chorus based on Ephesians 4:31-32 (KJV). “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, […]