As we approach the start of 2025 in just a couple of days, it’s a great time to reflect on the past year and consider the year ahead. Instead of making New Year resolutions, if we focused on making the right priorities, the New Resolutions will be a natural byproduct of those priorities. Whether or not we achieve specific resolutions, we’ll still be moving in the right direction—growing and developing in ways that align with God’s purpose for us.
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The Bible has many scriptures about the use of tongue, and it gives us instructions about the improper use of tongue and the blessing of using our tongue appropriately. …
Biblical mediation has many benefits including keeping us from acting on our anger!
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Self-control is not a popular subject, but it is an invaluable trait that we all need to develop as God’s children. …
Most of us have erected walls of hostility at some point in our lives and have kept others at a distance. We may have erected those walls to keep family members, friends, co-workers, neighbors, or church members at a distance. Some of us may still have walls of hostility against some people. For many years, Esau and Jacob had a wall of hostility between them, but there came a time that they had to deal with it and tear down the wall. …
The Israelites quickly found out that God would not gloss over their man-made method of delivering the ark regardless of their joy and celebration! …
