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Category Archives: Personal Evaluation
Why is Age Important?
This is a repost from Nov 7, 2016 Why do we have ages? What difference does age make? Obviously time does pass and we do change with “age,” yet what is age really? And how does it affect the way … Continue reading
Posted in Facts from the Bible, Personal Evaluation
Tagged Are we focusing on God?, Communicating, Community matters, Does your age matter?, Older people, Our Value, Relationships Matter, Treating others well, Using out talents, Wanting Relationship, Where do we get our value?, Why is Age Important?, Young people
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Why Does God Allow Heat in Our Lives?
I was recently researching medieval brick making, I know, kind of a strange subject to be studying. However, for those of you who read my novels, this line of research likely is not surprising to you, since you know that … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Personal Evaluation
Tagged Aligning with God, Enduring the heat, God as Creator, God is our strength, God keeps His promises, God our Maker, He formed us, Life is hard, Made strong by heat, The Potter, The struggle is real, Transformation, We are the clay, Why does God allow hard things, Why Does God Allow Heat in Our Lives?
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Winning Friends While Not Compromising Your Christianity
I’ve recently been reading Dale Carnegie’a book How to Win Friends and Influence People. There are many tools he suggests that have a lot of merit. He talks about how if you express genuine interest in someone else, smile, remember … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Defining a Christian, Personal Evaluation
Tagged Be light, Caring about others, Caring about the person, Communicating, Communicating who God is, criticism, God is Light, How we speak truth matters, How you use your words, Light vs. Darkness, Love others well, Rebuilding Relationships, Relationships Matter, Speaking gently, Speaking significance, Speaking Truth, We are carriers of light, Why do words hurt?
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Are You Focused on Your God Given Gifts or Your Flaws?
Do you ever get that voice in the back of your head that keeps telling you that your flaws make your gifts unheard, ineffective, drowned out, or devoid of meaning? Note: When I say flaws, I mean things like imperfections, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Evaluation
Tagged Caring about others, casting our cares, Embraced, Encourage each other, Encouragement, Encouraging others, God first loved us, God's perspecitve, How do you see yourself?, How God sees you, Imperfect, Loved Declared, Offering grace, the incredible power of grace, Treating others well, Where is your focus?, Wholly Loved
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How Can We Respond Better in an Argument?
Have you ever been in the midst of an argument with someone and paused to ask yourself the questions: “How important is my grievance here, really?” “Will this matter five days from now? How about five years from now?” “Can … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Personal Evaluation
Tagged A better response, Arguments, Bear one another’s burdens, Behaving like our Lord, Caring about others, God is compassionate, God is gracious, God is Great in mercy, God is slow to anger, God's Mercy, His Compassions fail not, How does God Respond to us?, Mercy without justice is empty, Responding, slow to anger, slowing down, The Cost of Forgiveness, What does it mean to bear one another’s burdens?
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How Are you Responding To God?
In the medieval time period, vassals (a landholder or lesser lord) would be bequeathed land by a landowner (a liege lord), and for this land the vassal would swear their loyalty and service to their liege lord. The king was … Continue reading
More Thankful, But For What?
Have you ever found yourself a victim of the version of this verse where people say, “You really should be more thankful.” But what they really mean is “Your complaints or depression is annoying to me, therefore I think you … Continue reading
How Do I Know If Someone is Truly Repentant?
There are Christians out there who would say, it’s not our place to judge whether or not someone who claims to be repentant truly is repentant; rather it’s our place to treat them like they are. But that’s not actually … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Evaluation, Two Types of Christians
Tagged Accepting punishment, Forgiveness, Forgiveness Doesn't Equal Trust, Forgiveness of sin, How Did Jesus’s Death on the Cross Pay for Our Sins?, How Do I Know if Someone Is Truly Repentant?, Jesus died for our sins, Just Punishment, Repentance, Repenting, Saved From What?, Sin has consequences, The Cost of Forgiveness, Truly Repentant, What is sin?, Why repent?
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As Christians How Should We Respond to Magic?
Last week we talked about how magic is what is taking place—someone using special power to make things happen that would usually be impossible. The source behind magic is specified by calling it a “miracle” (sourced by God) or “sorcery” … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Defining a Christian, Personal Evaluation
Tagged God is supreme, how should we respond to magic?, Is magic real?, Magic in the Bible, magic is two sided, Miracle vs magic, Miracle vs sorcery, Obedience, Only two sources of power, Satan's trap of power, The appeal of power, Types of magic, Who is sourcing the magic?, Who is the Serpent in the Garden?, Why is magic a problem?
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When the rocks speak 