The Christian faith and risk aversion are incompatible …
An underlying reason why the church in America is weak and declining is that the average person professing to be a follower of Jesus is just as […]
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Aug
2018
Blog Tag
Christianity
22
Aug
2018
Incredibly, God has given us exactly what we need …
God’s grace, mercy, and love toward us — and all He has done for us — is so pervasive there’s no single scripture in the Bible that […]
08
Aug
2018
Typical results of being saved …
Living in the “information age” means we’re swimming in advertising! It seems like everywhere you look, an advertisement has been inserted in an attempt to sell you […]
02
Aug
2018
Self doesn’t come first …
… at least, it isn’t supposed to. Many of our problems come from the fact we ignore this truth and routinely place ourselves first in our lives. […]
29
Jul
2018
The movie or the book?
Which do you think is better, the movie or the book? You know, those times when a movie is made based off a great book. Then comes […]
23
Jul
2018
Fostering uncertainty about tomorrow instead of living by faith …
We are our own greatest source of stress and anxiety. Many people alive today are not naturally wired to be truly content if they have today what […]
22
Jun
2018
There must be a standard. What’s yours?
A factory manager noticed production was being hampered because of employees returning late from their lunch hour. When the whistle blew, few were at their machines. He […]
22
Jun
2018
Stubbornness is sin’s quicksand …
For years, I purposely left off the suffix of “Jr.” as part of my name, but I learned to make sure to add it every time my […]
15
Jun
2018
When a professing Christian becomes a functional atheist …
One of the reasons for the weakness of the Christian church in the West is an onslaught of professing Christians who have become what’s referred to as […]
14
Jun
2018
You can improve your life by removing the ambivalence about priorities …
Adding ambivalence into setting priorities is a quick route to making your life more difficult and misdirected. The late Haddon Robinson noted one old recipe for rabbit […]