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Article: Public Success, Private Failure

Photo courtesy of Stock.XCHNG.com/Mart1n Many people today lead different lives. They have different sets of behavior while at home and in public. Though this can be broken down even further, there are specific behaviors for the public and private life. People have a desire to be liked, understood, appreciated, and successful within their professional and personal life. To achieve these, people may adjust their conduct or character. (This doesn't mean the person will commit illegal acts.) Though someone may achieve success in their professional and personal life, they may experience the exact opposite in their...

Article: Refresh

Photo courtesy of Stock.XCHNG.com/lfpilz The F5 button on a computer keyboard gives a refresh to a webpage or screen. It resets things to its original purpose/design. If things were changed, the F5 button will reset them. In like fashion, there are times when our lives need a refresh. We may look over our lives and feel things are a hot mess. Nothing is right...everything is wrong and there seems to be no way out. We become so discouraged that we don't want to even try to get things right. We don't even know where to begin even if we want to get our lives in order. As our lives may be stained and filthy by sin, there's still hope....

Article: Rise Again

Photo courtesy of iStockPhoto/Travis Silva Failing is never easy. We want to live a righteous and holy life for God, then we do something that bring us into sin. We feel horrible, unworthy, and far from the love of our Father in Heaven. It seems that we'll never be able to make it back to where we need to be, let alone where we were before we fell. Proverbs 24:16 (KJV) - For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Solomon wrote to his son about the difference of a just man and the wicked. The difference is where they will end up. ...