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Category Archives: Influence
Why a Lion Tamer Uses a Chair
Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my … Continue reading
Posted in Choices, Commitment, God's Will, God's Work, Individuality, Influence, Ministry, Personal, Priorities, Service, Spiritual Gifts, Talents
Tagged focusing on one thing and doing it, illustration about focus, keeping a lion confused, spreading yourself too thin, the importance of focus, using your gift for God, using your talent for God, Why does a lion tamer use a chair?
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The Mixed Multitude
Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds — a great deal of livestock. (Exodus 12:38, N.K.J.V.) … Continue reading
Posted in Backsliding, Choices, Complaining, Contentment, Counsel, Decisions, Desires, Discernment, Discipleship, Friendship, God's Chastening, God's Judgment, God's Provision, Greed, Influence, Lust, Prayer Requests, Rebellion, Separation, Service, Temptation, Trusting In God
Tagged exodus, God providing Israel with quail, the dangers of Christians associating with lost people, the influence of unbelievers, the mixed multitude, the people of Israel longing for the foods they had in Egypt, Who were the mixed multitude?
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Look Out for Those Unequal Yokes
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Business, Choices, Church, Church Attendance, Commitment, Decisions, Discernment, Discipleship, Doctrine, God's Will, God's Work, Government, Homosexuality, Influence, Lesbianism, Marriage, Politics
Tagged A.C. Gaebelein, Amos 3:3, Charles Ryrie, examples of an unequal yoke, Exodus 22:10, Freemasonry is an unequal yoke, John Philipps, Merrill Unger, Oliver B. Greene, Ray Stedman, Should a Christian stay in a church that teaches wrong doctrine?, unequal yokes in politics, What is an unequal yoke?, What's wrong with fraternities and sororities, What's wrong with Freemasonry?What's wrong with fraternities and sororities?
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Speak Up Or Shut Up?
The Bible is a big, rich, complex book, one that can be used to seemingly prove virtually anything. This is the primary reason why Christian denominations find it impossible to get together 100% on doctrine. Furthermore, to make matters worse, … Continue reading
Posted in Balance, Choices, Communication, Complaining, Counsel, Evangelism, God's Timing, God's Will, Influence, The Holy Spirit, The Tongue, Witnessing
Tagged be swift to hear slow to speak, Bible, christianity, in the multitude of words sin is not lacking, jesus, let your yes be yes and your no no, speak up or shut up?, the Spirit will give you the words to say
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What Should Have Been
I was a little under two years into my first pastorate when one afternoon, as I was driving in my car, I happened to drive past the sign for a certain church in our area. It was a sign that … Continue reading
Posted in Choices, Church, Counsel, Decisions, Disappointment, Discernment, Disobedience, God's Timing, God's Guidance, God's Will, God's Work, Influence, Leadership, Ministry, Obedience, Patience, Personal, Prayer, Prayer Requests, Preaching, Rebellion, Service, Waiting
Tagged Bible, choosing the wrong pastor, christianity, Church, discerning God's will, Faith, He did not do many mighty works there, jesus, limiting what God can do, Matthew 13:58, Matthew 23:37, seeking your own counsel, the dangers of missing God's will, the problems with pulpit committees, when a pulpit committee gets it wrong
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John Wesley’s Pound Notes
This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men. (Titus 3:8, N.K.J.V.) The … Continue reading
Incident on a School Bus
During some of my college years, I had a part-time job driving a school bus for elementary and middle school students. Since I myself hadn’t been a kid for a while, that job served to remind me just how cruel … Continue reading
Job’s Wife & Her Tongue of Fire
The book of Job consists of 1,070 verses and 42 chapters. First, chapters 1 and 2 feature conversations between God and Satan. Second, chapters 3 through 31 feature conversations between Job and Eliphaz, Job and Bildad, and Job and Zophar. … Continue reading
Jesus & Nazareth
But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.” (Mark 6:4, N.K.J.V.) With the exception of the times when I was attending Appalachian State … Continue reading
Posted in Christ's Miracles, Doing Good, Evangelism, Family, Friendship, God's Work, Individuality, Influence, Leadership, Ministry, Pastors, Personal, Preaching, Service, Witnessing
Tagged a prophet is not without honor, Elijah and the widow of Zarephath, Elisha curing Naaman's leprosy, Jesus preaching in Nazareth, ministering to your family, ministering to your friends, ministering to your neighbors
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The Disciple's Road 