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Peter says to add to our faith, "virtue." What is virtue? How are we to feel about the change that is needed to become more Christ-like?

We excercise judgement about many things every day. Jesus asks us to be wise in judgement and not to simply judge the outside or cursory things. We need wisdom and we need to be asking, seeking, and knocking that we might know how to treat others the way we want to be treated. It is possible to be decieved and so good judgement is of vital importance seeing that Jesus' way is narrow and there are few who find it. LORD, give us wisdom. Help us to be merciful to others. Help us to love each other enough to hold each other accountable with mercy and grace and love. Recorded at Refuge TLH on Sunday, August 5, 2019.

By Pastor Glenn Pease A professor at the University of Chicago was asked to teach an advanced seminar on astrophysics. There were a lot of reasons not to do it. He was doing research in Wisconsin, and it would be a hundred mile round trip twice a week. The course was scheduled for winter months, and…

By Pastor Glenn Pease William Broden, reporter for the Chicago Sun Times, begins his book called The Private Sea, with an account of a party in Chicago on LSD. A young man under the influence of this drug seized his live kitten and began to eat it. Later in an effort to explain his action he said he…

By Pastor Glenn Pease In the play "Lightnin" and old civil war pensioner got his monthly check. He showed it to his friends and said, "Look, see this signature, that's the President of the United States-big name. And you see this-that's the signature of the Secretary of the Treasury-another big name."…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Salt is a paradox because it is both vital to your health, and one of your health's most deadly enemies. Dr. Conrad of Bethel is a great example of the importance of knowing this paradox. He had too much salt in his system, and needed to reduce his intake of salt. This a theme heard…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Near the end of the last century a group of minors in a mid-Western state became angry. They expressed that anger by igniting a carload of coal and pushing it down the mine shaft. Like most who act in anger, they could not foresee the long range consequences of their action. When…

By Pastor Glenn Pease It was in Santa Clara, California, in the summer of 1988 that Lavonne and I experienced our one and only earthquake. We were in a motel and the bed began to vibrate like it does when you put a quarter in the machine at the side of the bed. It only lasted a few seconds, but even…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Some years back at the University of Wisconsin a group of literary students formed a club. The purpose of the club was to criticize. The members would submit a story, and it would be dissected mercilessly with no punches pulled. The sessions were so brutal that the club members…

The Story - Chapter 1 – The beginning of life as we know it Changing Lives video with Jay Hoffman I am (Creation video) Three words – In the beginning… Honestly, why are they there? Because God wanted us to know there was a beginning. In the beginning God… The only One who was there in the beginning…

By Pastor Glenn Pease It is a pain to struggle with doubt, but there is a great debate as to whether this is a helpful or harmful type of suffering. In Camelot, King Arthur says to Lancelot that he is satisfied he did the right thing in starting the round table. Lancelot replies, "Your majesty, did you…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Did you ever run away from home? I did once, and sat out in a field, and nobody came after me. Life gets boring fast alone in a field of weeds, and I was getting hungry so I decided to go home, and that is how most people get home. How did the Prodigal son ever get back home? The…

By Pastor Glenn Pease I had an awful temper as a child. When I was in first or second grade I broke a pool cue over the head of one of my brother's friends, and for years after I was reminded that I caused the scar on his forehead. My older brother came close to getting even worse. In one of our fights…

By Pastor Glenn Pease A 16th century German monk discovered the power of religious bribery. The children showed great reluctance in learning their prayers. Scolding and punishing them did not improve things, and so he tried offering them a reward. Tradition has it that he took thin strips of dough and…

By Pastor Glenn Pease A young boy had been sent to his room for bad behavior. After awhile he emerged and told his mother he had thought it over and prayed about it. "That's wonderful", said the mother. "If you ask God He will help you be good." The boy responded, "But I didn't ask God to help me be…

By Pastor Glenn Pease John Powell, whose books have now sold over 11 million, begins his book The Christian Vision with the request that we run a short home made movie on the screen of our minds. Imagine that you have come home on a dark night and to your horror you see a long snake on your front lawn.…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Andrew Carnegie was the richest man in the world at the beginning of the 20th century. His life illustrated both the positive and negative sides of the fruit of faithfulness. You would think that faithfulness would always be positive, but the fact is, every virtue can be a vice…

BY PASTOR GLENN PEASE Gipsy Smith was one of the great evangelists in England in the last half of the 19th century. He had the largest congregation in England outside of London. They met in a building that once housed the Imperial Circus. One Sunday night the pre-service prayer group was meeting in a…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Many years ago a man invited a friend to come with him to hear Jimmy Durante, but the man refused. He said he could not stand Durante. "But why," asked his friend. "When did you ever see him?" "I've never seen him," he responded, "But I saw a fellow do an imitation of him and it…

By Pastor Glenn Pease In South Dakota a man by the name of August had a clothing store he was going to close up. His was not one of those perpetual year around closing sales. He was actually intending to go out of business by July. So he hung a sign in his window which read, The First Of July Is The…

By Pastor Glenn Pease. Chuck Swindoll was told this true story of Joe Gibbs, head coach of the Washington Red Skins. Joe's friend Frank looked out the window one morning and there was his faithful Labrador Retriever sitting on the front porch with something hanging from the dog's jaws. A closer look…

What The Bible Teaches Unit 2 Who Am I? Lesson 7 Where Did I Come From? With today’s lesson, we leave the doctrine of God and commence a three week study on man, the doctrine of anthropology. We will address the basic question, Who Am I, by looking at three other questions: Where Did I Come From? Am…

INTRODUCTION Your Christian life is greatly affected by the people you spend time with. The Bible is very clear on this, that we need to choose our friends, our church, and our teachers very carefully. The people we associate with can have an almost mystical, unnoticed effect upon us. One thing is so…