What Does Your Heart Say About You?

What Does Your Heart Say About You?

As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflects the real person. (Proverbs 27:19) Does your heart align with what you want people to believe about you? The “heart” is much different than a perception or projection. A person’s heart is his lifestyle. Habits....
Not Everyone You Listen to is a Friend

Not Everyone You Listen to is a Friend

One of life’s toughest lessons to learn is that not everyone is your friend. Often, life’s deepest betrayals come from co-called “friends.” Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the descendants of the captivity were building...
How Do You Handle Spiritual Gray Areas?

How Do You Handle Spiritual Gray Areas?

Therefore let us…decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance (gray area) in the way of a brother. Let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. (Romans 14:13, 19 / ESV, parenthesis added) Whether we are a spiritual help or a spiritual hindrance,...
Find Your Joab to Help Make Good Choices

Find Your Joab to Help Make Good Choices

Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants, for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now. (2 Samuel 19:7 / ESV)...