Although you might need to walk away from a relationship with a person with toxic qualities, as a believer, that should be the last resort. But you do need to be careful to relate to the toxic person biblically. There is room for protecting yourself and following biblical prin...
Challenges, hurts, and annoyances come to us all. And if we don’t deal with them biblically, it’s like having an inner gunny sack where we keep adding things. Even if we manage to control it for a while, eventually it will get too full and all that ugliness will come spilling out...
Application: A self-controlled believer resists the urge to retaliate when wronged, avoiding the escalation of conflict in fellowship. Practical Example A leader exercising self-government refuses to react to false accusations with anger, instead taking time to pray and seek wisdom before responding, ...
Corinthians 9:6-7we are given the principle that God loves a cheerful giver. So if you are not happy to give 10% you are not biblically required. But again, if you are unsure of what to give, the 10% pattern might be used by the Holy Spirit to give you direction on this question...
Down, but Not Out: How to Get Up When Life Knocks You Down WAYNE A. MACK Do circumstances control you? Do you worry about your next career move? Are you over- worked or missing deadlines? Life is full of prob- lems that can bring us down. As Christians, however, we know that ...
Vengeance and payback in this life belongs to the Lord, not to us. There thus is no reason why any of us should continue to hold onto feelings of anger, bitterness, and hatred towards all of those who have ever harmed us in this life. Sooner or later, all of the people who have ev...
The Bible tells a Christian woman not to base her beauty in how she looks. Rather, how you look should be based in the beauty you already have. That’s the key to dressing biblically. Do not seek to shape your inner beauty through your outer beauty. Rather, your inner beauty should ...
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