Miraculously, His message was carried through the crowds as they held on to every word He spoke! Without a microphone or a way of projecting His voice, Jesus spoke words of blessing, warning, and wisdom to His followers. It’s a place where hundreds of sunrise services have taken place and where thousands of people have hiked to view the surrounding beauty.Īs I picture it, I can’t help but liken it to the mountainside where Jesus taught the multitudes. There’s an open space at the top of one of the mountain trails a few minutes from my house. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them.” - Matthew 5:1-2 In the How to Study the Bible podcast, pastor and Bible teacher Nicole Unice brings life back to reading the Bible by walking listeners through her Alive Method of Bible study, helping us personally encounter God through his Word by giving us a practical, clear road map for understanding, interpreting and applying Scripture to our lives.“Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. What should feel alive often feels confusing and boring and irrelevant. We want to experience God through the Bible… we really do!īut our good intentions fall flat when reading the Bible just doesn’t seem to help us experience God in a real way. in Communication from Regent University and serves as associate producer for Soul Check TV. Her writing has been published by Focus on the Family, Decision, Today’s Christian Woman,, ,, ,, and more. She enjoys writing about faith, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Lynette Kittle is married with four daughters. Who has offended you? Who do you need to forgive? Take time today to pray forgiveness over any offenses you are holding onto. So overall if we are willing, this purging process can help us experience a godly type of gratefulness for the cleansing work it does within us ( 1 Thessalonians 5:18). If we truly want God to transform and renew us, then we want to be willing to examine our own behaviors and attitudes, like 2 Corinthians 13:5 urges us to do. Offenses have a way of shining a spotlight within us, exposing areas in our hearts that could use revealing. As we work to truly forgive others, we uncover and discover weaknesses in ourselves, ones we most likely didn’t know were even residing within us. Overlooking offenses is good work for us to do. And if we’re willing to submit to Him, He will refine and fine-tune our hearts during the process. Still, even in the midst of these hurtful experiences, God gives us the opportunity to learn how to work through offenses. Likewise, we hope Christians grasp the importance of the words we speak, remembering how one day we will all give an account for every empty word spoken ( Matthew 12:36). Like Romans 12:10 encourages, we hope believers will give preference to one another. It can be even more disappointing when a fellow Christian offends us, because we have higher expectations for them. In a world of hurtful social media tactics and more, how do we move past offenses where others knowingly or unknowingly wound us? “A person’s wisdom yields patience it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense”- Proverbs 19:11 How to Overlook an Offense ( Proverbs 19:11)
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