Don’t you like to be treated nice? Boy, I sure do. I love being treated with dignity, respect, fairness, graciousness, and kindness. I bet you do too. Everybody does. Well, with that in mind, Jesus’ words in Matthew 7:12 would revolutionize this community. Jesus said there this one simple godly principle for life, Do unto others as you would have them do…

It really doesn’t take much of something to get in our eye and cause a lot of pain. The smallest speck can hurt so badly, leaving us begging somebody to help get it out quickly. But Jesus says while we should definitely help others out with their eye, we should be way more concerned about what’s in our own eye than in…

Are you the type of person who tends to worry? Jesus tells us in Matthew 6 that worry isn’t good because it’s unproductive. Worrying alone can’t fix anything. And you can’t add a single hour to your life by worrying. In fact, it robs you of hours because it’s a waste of time and energy. It’s just unproductive. But worry is also…

The leading cause of blindness in the world today is cataracts, which is the clouding of the eye’s lens. It’s kind of like looking out a dirty window. Eventually, the build up gets to be such that light can no longer get inside the eye, leaving the person blind. But a simple procedure can remove cataracts and restore sight. Jesus tells us…

So many folks today want to draw attention to themselves. They just seem to always be screaming, “Look at me! ” Jesus dealt with a similar situation in his day. People would fast from food but not for a spiritual reason like they were supposed to. How do we know? Because while fasting, they would present themselves in a way said, “Look…

Are you a person of prayer? If you’re a Christian, you should be. But often we struggle with what to pray about. In Matthew 6:9, Jesus helps us out with a model prayer that’s often called the Lord’s prayer. Our Father, who is in heaven, hallowed be your name; your kingdom come; your will be done; on earth as it is in…

Who are you trying to impress? In this day and age of social media and self-promotion, we should be very careful. You see, when you do good in such a way that you intentionally draw the applause of the public, you already have your reward from the crowd and are actually robbing yourself of a greater reward from God. Jesus said in…

Haters gon’ hate. Amen? In this fallen world, there’s always going to be somebody hating on us. It may be because of the color of our skin or where we’re from or the things we’ve been blessed with or the talents we’ve developed. Look, we can’t control the haters, but we can control whether or not we hate back. It’s actually natural…

Have you ever heard somebody say, “I don’t get mad. I get even.” You see, inside the fallen human heart is this intense desire to retaliate and get somebody back when we have been wronged. You might even quote the Bible and say, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But revenge doesn’t make the situation better. It…

My great-grandfather Phillip Croslin was a sharecropper in southcentral KY and made a name for himself as an honest mule trader. If he said, yes, the mule is good, the mule was good. He was a man of his word. Does that kind of character seem a thing of the past? It shouldn’t be. Jesus expects it in us. He told us…