We have made 1 Corinthians 13 into a wedding reading. Paul wrote it to people in a church fight. Not people in love — people in conflict, jockeying for status, eating communion bread while others went hungry. Every descriptor in verse 4 is a behavior, not a feeling. Patient. Kind. Not envious. Not boastful. Not proud. Five choices. None of them romantic. All of them available to you today, in the next conversation you have, with the next person who tests you. This is what love looks like when Christ is the source of it.
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Sunday Sessions | You’re Not Overthinking: Discernment, Pattern Recognition, and the Mantle You Carry
The world has a word for people who see too much. Overthinker. Anxious. Too sensitive. But somewhere along the way, a lot of us learned to second-guess the very thing God was sharpening in us. The “problem” is pattern recognition, and it’s only a problem for people who don’t have any skill in it. Discernment is pattern recognition under anointing. And the weight you’ve been feeling? That’s not a crisis. Scripture calls it a mantle. God does not press people He does not intend to use.
Beyond the Divide: Uncovering the Shared Roots of Spiritual Gifts
A Childhood of Fear and a Search for Truth I grew up trembling—not at the thought of witches lurking in the shadows, but at the contradictions woven into the faith I was raised to defend. From the pulpit, I heard witchcraft condemned as one of the gravest sins, an abomination before God, backed by versesContinueContinue reading “Beyond the Divide: Uncovering the Shared Roots of Spiritual Gifts”