Jesus is Real Radio with Daniel Fusco (Audio‪)‬ Daniel Fusco

Isn’t it almost…well, not exactly fun…but maybe a little pleasurable when someone you don’t like gets what you think they have coming? You feel guilty about enjoying that, but that guilt doesn’t stop you from enjoying their discomfort. Pastor Daniel will be talking about that attitude today and how it is not how God wants you to be thinking. You’re going to be reminded that God’s love does not rejoice in the wrong.

Everybody has ideas about how they should be treated as well as how they think they should treat other people. Most people don’t give much thought to these ideas because if they did, they’d see the gap between the two. We want to be treated much better than we treat people. Pastor Daniel’s message today is going to address this disparity and then blow it all up by giving us a higher standard of treating people: God’s standard.

Sometimes, you know, we just want to tell people what we really think about them. We know that it might start a fight but we don’t care. And in the thinking of the world, such behavior is justified at times. Pastor Daniel is going to be teaching that this is one of the places where the kingdom of God clashes with the kingdom of this world. You’re going to hear about God’s viewpoint and will be given examples of the ways that God has been kind to you.

One of the hard things about being a Christ follower in America is that even people who don’t follow God understand what God’s followers should act like. And when we don’t act in a loving way, it gets their attention. This is the challenge we face – we’re all works in progress. Pastor Daniel will be talking about being patient and kind, which requires that we show patience and kindness to other people, just like God does with all of us.

We love puppies. We love kittens. And babies. And our favorite sports team. Coworkers? Sometimes not so much. Family members? Same. We have all kinds of things we say we love, and we usually have people we know we should love but struggle to do so. Pastor Daniel will be teaching from one of the most famous Bible passages. We will be confronted with the standard for love that God has and expects from us.

There’s a lot of talk these days – you find it everywhere. Radio, television, the internet – you can’t get away from it. And much of the talk would fall into the category that the Bible calls “folly” or “foolishness”. Pastor Daniel will be teaching that as a follower of Jesus, the challenge in our life is to not add to the amount of foolish talk in the world. You’ll be given tips on how to talk the kind of talk that is pleasing to Jesus and His Father.