Regret isn’t always a bad sign. Pastor Chris explains why some regret is a gift from the Holy Spirit, and how to tell it apart from the guilt the enemy uses to keep us stuck. Pastor Chris turns from preventing regret to a harder question: what do we do with the regrets we already have? He starts with a surprise. Regret isn’t always bad. Pastor Chris says it can be a sign of a healthy conscience, the way the Holy…
Peter ate with the Gentiles until a certain group walked in, then he moved tables. Pastor Chris shows from Galatians why people pleasing leads to regret, and who we should be aiming to please instead. Pastor Chris closes the Regret series with its fifth question to ask before a big decision: who are we aiming to please? He says there are only two choices, God or people, and that a people pleaser lives for the praise and approval of others.…
Pastor Chris continues the Regret series with the fourth question to ask before we decide anything: is there a grudge that won’t budge? He starts in James 3, where James describes two kinds of wisdom, God’s and man’s. Then he compares a grudge to too much alcohol. Both distort our view of reality. In Mark 6, Herodias nursed a grudge against John the Baptist, and it ended with John’s death. Leviticus 19:18 tells us not to seek revenge or bear…
Regret has a way of sneaking up on us, not because we don’t know better, but because we’re moving too fast to notice we’re headed the wrong way. This week, we continued our series on regret by asking a simple but piercing question: What’s the hurry? It turns out that the rush we treat as a badge of honor might actually be the very thing setting us up for a lifetime of looking back and wishing we’d done things differently.…
