Evendays

Friendships are costly
John 15.13-15: Greater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that [...]

When speaking of the influence of false brothers and their sway on the Corinthian church, Paul quoted the O.T.:

Do not be deceived: Bad company ruins good morals.

In Christian friendship, we are not only loyal to each other, but we are also committed to holiness. As Tippens writes in his book, Pilgrim Heart, there is honor [...]

Can I be myself with you?
Good friends have the confidence to share who they really are… To take off their masks. A true friend loves at all times, according to Solomon. In adversity, trouble, pain, struggle and separation, a true friend is there to listen as you expose your sin.
James 5:16: Therefore confess your sins [...]

A second point that Tippens makes in his book, Pilgrim Heart, is that David and Jonathan could count on each other.
1 Samuel 20:14-17: [Jonathan said]: But show me unfailing kindness like that of the LORD as long as I live, so that I may not be killed, 15 and do not ever cut off your [...]

I was surprised by the chapter in Tippens’ book, Pilgrim Heart, that he considered friendship a “walking” spiritual discipline. Then I glanced at a book on disciplines that a colleague gave me a few years ago entitled: The disciplines of a Godly Man (Hughes) and in the first section there was a chapter on friendship. [...]

I had written a heart revealing, insight building, provocative post on how hard it is to make tough decisions. 
I hit the publish button. And all was lost. But I didn’t realize it till today.
So I have decided NOT to write that post again.

We are celebrating wife’s birthday today. Born on the first of May, she deserves a day off!
Love you, Wife. Have a great day.
Gotta run…