Posts tagged love your neighbor
Can People Tell That You Know Jesus?

After I placed my order for an iced coffee and an everything bagel, I took a seat at a table by the front window. As I pulled out my computer and started writing out my to-do list for the day, one of the coffee shop’s regulars, an elderly lady named Janet made her way to the front door to leave. As she got closer to the exit, she pulled up her hood on her coat, getting ready to face the pouring rain outside. But before she could walk out the door, a man with an umbrella walked up behind her and asked if he could walk her to her car.

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The Golden Rule

The Golden Rule is written out twice in Scripture, once in Matthew and again in Luke. I'm a firm believer that if the Lord decided to repeat Himself in Scripture, we should pay special attention to what He's repeating. And while my dad paraphrased the verses to say, "treat people the way you want to be treated," the principle remains. If we all lived by this statement, think about how different our world would be. If we would ask ourselves "What's the golden rule?" before every decision, every interaction, every response, and every conversation, everything would look drastically different.

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