The Ugly Christmas Sweater: Ugly Motivations

Our actions can tend to be as ugly as our Christmas sweaters, but God calls us to greater than that, God calls us to love and to allow God’s love to overflow from us into the lives of others.

Why do you do what you do? Jesus is more often concerned about the heart behind your actions than your actions themselves because we can to do the right thing for the wrong reason. The Christmas season, make Jesus your motivation – the reason why you do what you do.

Often times the people closest to us bear the brunt of the ugliness that comes our mouths. But as a people of Jesus, we are to be the transmitters of joy and love to others. This does not mean that we can’t be truthful with people and have difficult conversations, but it does mean that…

Untangling Christmas lights is one thing, untangling our minds from negativity to take on joyfulness in the Christmas season is quite another thing. The Apostle Paul gives us a command to rejoice, no matter what our circumstances so that we can have peace in our hearts and in our minds in Christ Jesus.