Proverbs 16 – Motives Are Weighed by the Lord (Part 1)

The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their way preserve their lives. ~Proverbs 16:17 (NRSV). For a chapter of Proverbs that’s so fabulously divergent on the surface, there is a smooth theme of Wisdom – God’s superintendent elect – overseeing all of life, weighing intent, plans, decisions and responses, and responding in kind.

Know What You Believe

“Knowing” is beyond knowledge. If we ‘know’ God, it’s more than simply knowing about him; it’s more about sensing his will for our lives and being in alignment with it. It’s deeper than head-knowledge for it has infiltrated the heart to the hands.

The Undeniable Power of Diligence

Diligence is the ability to carry out small task with care and precision. It carries with it some unique rewards, which are highlighted in this article.

Dream Keys

Our night time dreams are gifts from our higher selves to guide us in our daily lives. I know that we all ask, at one time or another, others for advice, imagining that they know what’s the best for us. However, are they living our lives, are they living the type of life that we aspire to live?

Head Knowledge Or Heart Knowledge – What Is the Difference?

Head knowledge hears the words of the Bible, totally agrees with them, and obeys them as much as a person is capable of doing with his own abilities. Heart knowledge hears and is instantly sold on every word with the difference being that a person sees something so clearly that it goes beyond mere words and sinks into their very being. They are so changed by those words that it makes a huge impact on their life.

Unanswered Prayers, Is God Not Listening To Our Cries?

God hears your prayers, but he has, through the bible, already provided many of the answers. In a world that is filled with foolishness Christian beliefs, unanswered prayers become commonplace. We ask but we do not receive. When it seems that God is not listening to our cries, unbelievers mock us by asking, “Where is your God”?

Seven Indicators of a Genuine Christian

How can you distinguish the genuine Christian from the fake one, the nominal Christian? Here are seven indicators which you may apply to yourself to find out whether you are genuine or fake as a Christian.

Proverbs 19 – Six Portraits of Patient Wisdom

Anger, we’ve already established much earlier, is patience’s opposite. If we rescue an angry person they’ll only fall again in their angry ways – we’re doing them no favours (verse 19). The folly of fools is self-inflicted, yet ridiculously they blame God (verse 3). Those contemptuous of their ways – ever jesting about in life – will bring about their own peril (verse 16).

The Power of Words in Our Lives

An uncle of mine narrated an incident that happened a long time ago. He was driving when his car suddenly developed a fault and stopped, thereby causing a traffic hold-up. While he was battling to push the car out of the road to make way for free flow of traffic, a young man suddenly walked up to him and told him to get his car out of the road, calling him an old man in the process. My uncle, an elderly man, did not utter a word but he also was not happy with the insults from the younger man.

Warding Off Negative Influences From Reaching Your Mind

We are surrounded all the time by negative influences that do not have any difficulty in reaching our subconscious minds for as long as they remain the main thoughts on our conscious minds. It is important to point out sources of negative influences so that we can understand how to ward them off and keep ONLY positive thoughts on our minds. One major source of negative influences is usually from the well-meaning advice and talk of our immediate family, relatives, friends and acquaintances. Examples of such advice could come when one is about to undertake a venture that he/she believes would be a success.

Youth Ministry Resources – Are They That Important?

I want to try and take a new perspective on the idea of youth ministry resources. Not so far off the deep end that we do not need them. Trust me, I have tried every study and way I can to do away with messy games and other parts of student ministry like that. You know, the things you do every year that work every time but a big part of you prays they do not. Or maybe a better way to look at it is those things you would give to an intern if you had one. But I am not talking about that.

Will I Go To Hell For Not Going To Church?

Many Christians know church as the place you go to worship God. Traditional thinking has a way of making people believe things done and practices followed over the years are biblical and required by God.