Monitor your children’s close friends

‘My child, if sinners entice you, turn your back on them!’ Proverbs 1:10 NLT If you have children, you’ll never have a more important job in life than being a parent. And as long as your children are under your roof, you are responsible to God for them. With that in...

How to help hurting people

‘Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious.’ Ecclesiastes 10:12 NIV Are you are easily hurt? Do you hurt other people without intending to? Three things cause that: (1) We speak out of our own hurt. German poet Hermann Hesse wrote: ‘If you hate a person, you hate...

Try to be tactful

‘Let your conversation be gracious and attractive.’ Colossians 4:6 NLT If you habitually put your foot in your mouth, there’s a Scriptural remedy. ‘Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone.’...

Being ready

‘It did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.’ Matthew 7:25 NKJV Did you know that before it snows, certain fir trees retract their branches so that the weight of the snow they’ll have to bear will be reduced? This withdrawal response is programmed into their...

Bearing spiritual fruit (2)

‘Abide in Me, and I in you.’ John 15:4 NKJV A branch doesn’t bear fruit by trying, working, or straining. It bears fruit by simply ‘abiding’. What does this mean? How do you abide in Jesus? Let’s illustrate it this way: when you put a tea bag in a cup of hot water,...