How are you an encouraging influence? Read the examples we learn from and see how you can be an example.

Do you feel like you are in a pecking order? What do you show favoritism to?

Love each other. That was the command Jesus gave His followers in John 13:34. Was that too much to ask?

How do you become great?

Do you agree that the fact that love is an attitude rather than an emotion? Can love really be learned?

So much vengefulness. So many accusers. The religious leaders of Israel were rabid with righteous indignation. They had in their clutches a woman accused of adultery. These were no trumped-up charges. The woman was guilty. She knew it. Her accusers knew it. Jesus knew it. According to Jewish law, she deserved to be stoned to death. Is it worth showing kindness?

In what ways do you think the Lord is a Generous God?

Spiritual growth presupposes that we have spiritual life. Jesus clearly claimed to be God's Son, the Savior of humankind, the Giver of life. If we have confessed our sins and have received Christ as our Savior, then we have become God's children. How do you grow spiritually?

Jesus came to demonstrate the love of God, giving Himself as a sacrifice for the misdeeds of every person. Who can fathom the depths of the love of Jesus, who, while being crucified, prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing" (Luke 23:34)?

As Jesus describes in Luke 17:3, often the wise response to anger is to lovingly confront the person who has wronged you in an effort to seek resolution.