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Category: Life
Check Your Spirit Before Doing These 4 Things
Just as we need to check the oil when our car is spewing smoke, we likewise need to do a “spirit-check” before rashly drawing conclusions about people based on something they have said or done.
7 Parenting Errors That Can Influence Adult Children to Leave the Faith
Despite bedtime prayers, careful church attendance, family Bible reading, and a firm commitment to living out the faith, neither of our two adult children is currently following Christ. I hope to see others avoid such an outcome. In that light, here are seven parenting errors that can influence adult children to leave the faith.
7 Ways to Be a Friend According to the Bible
People lack friends, and they suffer for it. They are doing life alone, and that is hard. We need to learn to be friends again, and the apostle Paul teaches us how in his first letter to the church in Thessalonica.
10 Essential Lessons about Money from the Book of Proverbs
When it comes to money, we get conflicting messages: money is power; money is a curse; money corrupts; money means you’ve made it. Here are 10 essential lessons about money from the book of Proverbs.
Things I Wish I’d Known about Pastoring a Church When I Was Young
Here is some practical advice from a seasoned minister to help young men who are just starting out in pastoral ministry.
4 Ways to Respond When Christians Hurt You
When a professing believer hurts our feelings or reputation, how should we respond? Here are four ways.
Do the Ends Justify the Means?
Some people use the example of Rahab in Joshua 2 to assert that the sin of lying is justified if the resulting end of the lie is considered to be good. Does the Bible support this view?
Laboring for Christ in Obscurity: Reflections on “The Alpinist”
If you could accomplish great things for the glory of God, but no one except God and you would know, would you still put in all the work necessary to accomplish those things?
5 Ways to Support Your Pastor
Pastors are prone to high rates of burnout and are not immune to stress-related problems from their work such as anxiety and depression. Here are five ways to support your pastor.