SENSITIVITY TRAINING

A Boy and his BB Gun (scenario-1)Road Rage (scenario-2) You’re Wrong (scenario-3)Recompense (scenario-4)Eggceptionally Wicked (scenario-5)A Theological Tete’ a Tete’ (scenario-6)A Teeny Weeny Lie (scenario-7)Junk Foodie (scenario-8)Not so Happily Hasteely (scenario-9)Lone Wolf Worship (scenario-10)Sunny (scenario-11)Fully Worthy AxioS (scenario-12)Unusual Gravity Simon Peter (scenario-13)An Open Walk with God (scenario-14)Bearing False Witness (scenario-15)Jehovah’s Witnesses? (scenario-16)Poernno’s Penchant (scenario-17)Patiently Waiting for […]

Grace Under Pressure The milk is heated, its water drawn away— what remains is thick, sweet, enduring. So too, the soul: pressed by time, strained by sorrow, yet distilled into grace. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed… 2 Corinthians 4:8 Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character… Romans 5:3–4 The Slow

THE SCENARIO We are in a quiet garden very early in the morning, Chavaleh is kneeling upon a small patch of earth, her hands folded in prayer. The world is still, hushed—as if listening. She speaks softly, reverently, to her Lord Jesus…   Chavaleh: My Lord, I humbly come to you with seven requests—things the

The Scenario   Empatti, a Christian friend, met AstegoS “from afar” you might say. That encounter was on a Tuesday. The following is Empatti’s story. Empatti said that AstegoS had a dog with him, a pit bull looking sort of thing. Not sure who smelled worse, AstegoS or his dog said Empatti, and added, I

Looking for the Good (scenario-59) OphthalmoS has an eye (and a heart) for the good in all things, like our brother Paul did (Philippians 4:8, scenario34). It is an active thing with OphthalmoS, this looking for the good, you know, sort of knee-jerk. Actually, OphthalmoS is as much a doer of good as a looker

Spiritual Intimacy with Jehovah God (scenario-58)

https://jesusamen.org/scenario57.html HE SCENARIO Thus says ManitarI (“Mawnitawr’ee”): We mushrooms and unbelievers in Jesus Christ have some things in common, things in common, some things in common. We love the dark, see how we shrink away from the light—it really, really bothers us. And get this—we thrive on dead things! That’s right, dead things, yes. And see

https://jesusamen.org/scenario56.html THE SCENARIO It was brought to our attention that IliQioS ( “ee-li’-thi-os”) has recently gotten a little worried about their place in eternity. IliQioS wants to go to heaven but doesn’t know how to get there. To their credit, IliQioS thinks there is a heaven, but flat out does not know how to get there.

https://jesusamen.org/scenario55.html THE SCENARIO AggappH practices something that does not comenaturally. They do justly, they love mercy, they walk humbly before their GodJehovah—yes, all of that, and more: they love their enemy. Such is thedisposition of AggappH’s heart, to love even their enemy. And from thatdisposition follows the justice, the mercy, and the humility mentioned. A

https://jesusamen.org/scenario54.html THE SCENARIO Not so little Zacchaeus climbed up a sycamore tree, all the clearer the Shekinah Glory, yea, the blessed Lord Jesus to see. Being somewhat short in stature, reckoned round about five feet and three, he shimmied up, and up, and up, thus perched with exceeding, anticipatory glee.   O, Lord Jesus do