Power Harnessed

28   Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near.  Philippians 4:5 NASB Gentle spirit – What is the biblical idea of “gentle spirit”?  Is it meekness, sympathy, benevolence, a demure attitude, a light touch?  If those are your synonyms, what you do think about Moses, Jeremiah, Peter?  Would you say they had gentle…

Meek and Mild

to slander no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing every consideration for all people.  Titus 3:2  NASB Gentle – One of the consistent themes of my Sunday school education was the characterization of Jesus as meek and mild.  What did that mean?  Well, it meant, of course, that 1) he never did anything wrong, 2) he…

An Oxford Education

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.  James 3:17  NASB Gentle – When I arrived at Trinity College, Oxford as a graduate student, I was invited to dinner with the president of the college.  I assumed that this was a formal…