Today let’s continue our theme of Jesus praising and encouraging people. Look at Luke 10 where Jesus visits Mary, Martha and Lazarus at their home. Jesus is talking about reality, life and God! Mary is totally captivated: “As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named […]
Let’s continue our theme about Jesus finding things in imperfect people to praise and encourage! I wanted to turn to Peter for the next event because Peter has so many successes and so many failures! I want to highlight some of Peter’s failures so that everyone will know that our failures and sins do not set us […]
There are several places where Jesus praises or compliments someone. Last week we saw Him compliment Nathaniel as someone in whom there was no “guile” or falseness. (John 1:47)
Matthew 8:5 Have you ever thought about Jesus “praising” people for things well done? Well, He does. A Roman Centurion (Army commander of 100 men) sends word to Jesus through some Jewish leaders asking Jesus to come heal his sick servant. In the course of things the Roman soldier demonstrates faith essentially saying, “It isn’t […]
Have you ever thought about Jesus being the “kind of person” that praises other people or compliments them? I never did. My image of Jesus and God were… broken. I only thought of God finding fault with people. Or telling them to “do more.” Until I ran into several passages that helped “develop” my image […]