Consequences
Article: Choose Friends Wisely
Photo courtesy of CreationSwap/ClintDoggett Friendships (and associations) are important to our lives as social beings. They give up opportunities to express ourselves, share our best and worst moments, do things together, etc. Who we choose to be considered a friend (or even an associate) is very important to the success of our own lives. However, you must be very careful about who you choose to associate with. If you do not, you may find yourself in compromising situations that may change the course of your life forever. You should be cautious in your associations if: They are...
Article: Compromise is a Pathway to Sin
Photo courtesy of Stock.XCHNG.com/JoeKrow Most people understand compromise to be a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles. Compromise is also known as an endangering, especially of reputation; exposure to danger, suspicion (Dictionary.com). Each day we face numerous decisions that can affect our lives before the Lord. One choice decision can change the course of our lives on earth and beyond. There comes sometimes when you would want to please your spouse...
Article: Good Decision Making
Photo courtesy of Photo courtesy of Stock.XCHNG.com/Ydiot There are many reasons why we make the decisions we do. When we look back at the outcome of some of the decisions we made, sometimes we can't understand how we got into such predicaments, how to get out of them, or what we can do to live as God desires. Listed below is an outline of why we make the decisions we do; the consequences behind them; and how we can make good (and godly) decisions.
Article: Loaves of Bread
Photo courtesy of Stock.XCHNG.com/elvinstar Proverbs 6:25-27 (KJV) - Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? There are beautiful people in the world and we see them everyday. For some of us, they live next door to us or share the same office space. However, a problem arises if we ever begin to lust after their beauty in our hearts. When we lust after their...
Article: Preachers: Save Yourself and Your Hearers
Photo courtesy of Stock.XCHNG.com/johnnyberg 1 Timothy 4:16 (KJV) - Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. Paul was instructing Timothy as he was to remain in Ephesus to charge the churches concerning doctrine (1 Timothy 1:3). In this first letter, Paul tells him to: take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. As a pastor and leader, the way for him to save his hearers is to...
Article: The Fruit of Desire
Photo courtesy of Stock.XCHNG.com/mmilidoni Genesis 3:1-7 (KJV) - Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then...
