It is inevitable. Regardless of gender, race or age, we all face the challenges of life relating to money. Money itself is not bad. It is how the world engages in supply and demand. How economy works and unfortunately how the heart is attacked. Whether you have money, need money or don’t care about money,…
War is a common word used through out all of human existence. If it is the about the Middle-East war, the Vietnam war or the Revolutionary war, it is about mobile phone war, gas war, political war and even closer to each of us a war of words. What is you definition of war? What…
It is no enough to have knowledge; we have to have wisdom to be able to use knowledge correctly. There are brilliant people that are engineers and doctors and yet they still can’t manage their own lives 13 If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works…
Life is a struggle and knowing what to do and living out the right way of life are all moving targets. Not that they are undefined, unexpected or can be avoided. It is much like a golf game. There are different aspects of the game that need attention. The drive and big hit can definitely…
Faith is a key doctrine in the Christian life. The sinner is saved by faith (Eph. 2:8–9), and the believer must walk by faith (2 Cor. 5:7). Without faith it is impossible to please God (Heb. 11:6); and whatever we do apart from faith is sin (Rom. 14:23). Someone has said that faith is not…
As we learned in chapter 1 of James, a mature person in Christ will be patient in times of testing, but a key characteristic also exhibited is practicing of truth. Sometimes we lose the whole concept of practicing truth, and may times just go with the flow or follow our emotions. Chapter 2 of James…
We don’t like to be made fun of, we really don’t like jokes played on us. It embarrasses us and makes us seem not as bright as we think we are. But the reality is that if we faced the facts, no one has played more jokes on us and tricked us than ourselves. At…
We have all dealt with today’s topic. Many of us have had so much experience in it that we should be really good at dealing with it. Yet other times, how we have dealt with it has just become a part of who were are, or at least that is what we believe. We are…
Perhaps you have seen the saying that reads: “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!” It is easier to smile at that statement than to practice it, but the basic philosophy is sound. In fact, it is biblical. Throughout the Bible are people who turned defeat into victory and trial into triumph, tests into testimonies.…