Lance Brown
Heart Attitudes: Follow Spiritual Leadership
Following spiritual leadership (with a scriptural context) usually sounds like a good idea to most people. Whenever our leaders challenge us or suggest we do things that don’t sound very exciting to us, it becomes more difficult to put what we want aside and defer to those who are trying to lead us. What does…
Read MoreHeart Attitudes: Invest Your Time and Talents
This week we’ll look at the opportunities to invest your life. Our secular culture tells us to save our life for ourselves and for our interests. Jesus tells us that is a terrible decision! It is when we invest our life that life matters. Living for self and self’s interests is the road to emptiness…
Read MoreHeart Attitudes: Clear Relationships
Relationships always need regular “maintenance.” As humans we can anticipate hurt feelings, misunderstandings, miscommunication, conflict, ingratitude, bad attitudes, selfishness, etc. This week we’ll look at how to repair relationships.
Read MoreHeart Attitudes: An Open and Honest Life
Our second Pacific heart attitude is to live “An Open and Honest Life” with one another. Relationships must always be built with intention. The foundations must be honesty, openness, and creating trust and goodwill.
Read MoreHeart Attitudes: Put the Success of Others Above Your Own
We begin our series on The Heart Attitudes, seven attitudes of the heart that make a difference in life. First, we: Put the Success of Others Above your own. Philippians 2:3-4 says, “Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to…
Read MorePower of Gratitude
We all face struggles in our lives. Sometimes when we look at what makes us struggle it doesn’t even make sense. A rude driver cuts us off, someone jumps in a line in front of us, a friend gives us that “annoyed” look and our mind explodes with a response that, if we give it…
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