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Thoughts By John Fischer

August 30, 2022

Thinking Like a Servant

We are all naturally wired to think only of ourselves. Other people mattered deeply to Jesus.

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June 20, 2022

Winning and Losing

Life is all about ups and downs. Question: How do you measure the "wins" and "loses" in your life?

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January 27, 2022

Come Alongside

Come alongside. This is really the crux of it all. Just walk alongside people and enter into their lives. Listen. Talk. Laugh. Cry.

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December 20, 2021

God with Us

This is Christmas. This is Emmanuel: God with us. This is the advent - the coming of the Lord. God invading history. The one who invented it coming into it and submitting himself to all his own rules.

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August 16, 2021

Don’t Let Your Past Control Your Future

Release your hold on your life and throw the door open on the dynamic of God's will for your future.

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August 4, 2021

The Dark and Lonely Closet of Regret

Regret is like a hot potato. Hold onto it for any period of time and it will burn you.

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July 25, 2021

Growing Pains

The spiritual principle of growth - We obey by stepping into our weakness or our fear, trusting in the fact that because it is something He asks of us, He will meet us somewhere along the way with the power to do it.

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July 18, 2021

Because of You

Thought for the day: Don't ever sell short what God can do "because of you."

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June 3, 2021

Justice and Mercy

Is there anybody you'd rather not see in heaven? What if God chooses to extend mercy to that person? Would you go away and pout like Jonah?

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November 16, 2020

Jonah Just Doesn’t Get it

Jonah was so caught up in his own self-righteousness that, in the end, all he could care about was himself and a stupid plant. Meanwhile, God was having compassion for a hundred and twenty thousand people who were trapped in their own ignorance, along with many animals, which God cared about, too.

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