7 Talk is cheap, like daydreams and other useless activities. Fear God instead. (Ecclesiastes 5:7 NLT) 11 The more words you speak, the less they mean. So what good are they? (Ecclesiastes 6:11 NLT) 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. (James 4:17 ESV) 41 “A certain …
God’s Love
Questions to consider: Why does God discipline people? What does God’s love look like? Can anything separate us from the love of God? Our God is a loving and patient God. Sometimes it might not seem like it based on Old Testament scripture, but God uses His discipline and mercy to show us his love …
Weakness
It’s easy to feel horrible when we feel weak. Who wants to have limited success, disease, a broken heart? Maybe we feel weak because we have limited control over a situation. Whatever the case may be, weakness can make us feel like losers, like we don’t have any purpose in life. It can sink our …
Fellowship
Questions to consider: Who is our neighbor? What does fellowship look like? Why should we have fellowship? What is the body of Christ/the Church? What can we learn from Jesus about fellowship? Fellowship is one of the most important things in our lives. After all, what are we but the relationships we have with the …
Thankfulness
Thankfulness Questions to answer: Why should we be thankful? What should we be thankful for? How can we worship God? Thankfulness can be viewed as a function of trust? Paul, in Philippians, gives us a very important key to being a Christian. We would be wise to remember it in our times of trouble and …
Loving our Enemies
Questions to consider: Who are our enemies or can be modeled as enemies? How are we to treat our enemies? What does treating our enemies well do for us? This article deals with what I think the Bible says about how we treat enemies, which are people that we may or may not deal with …
The Poor and Lowly
This article discusses how we are to treat the poor and lowly, according to the Bible. Questions to consider: Why should we show kindness to the poor and lowly? How do we show kindness to the poor and lowly? One of God’s biggest desires for his people is that we would show kindness and generosity …
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