Mature Living
Mentoring: Investing in Others – Session 5 – The Narrator
The Narrator Who is the voice inside your child’s head? by MATT JACOBSON HERE’S A REASON Coke® and Pepsi® will spend billions advertising in 2022. When you’re thinking about something to drink, they are determined to do every-thing in their power to ensure that the voice inside your head speaks their thoughts — the thoughts […]
Read MoreMentoring: Investing in Others – Session 2 – Entrusted with Their Hearts
Entrusted with Their Hearts Give your grandchildren a firm foundation of faith. by STEPHANIE MURPHY IN TODAY’S WORLD, our grandchildren need us to give them a firm foundation of faith. They are receiving many confusing and incongruent messages in our upside-down world. As grandparents, we play a unique and valuable role in the lives of […]
Read MoreDealing with Temptation – Session 6 – One Bad Apple
One Bad Apple Watch out for the pitfalls. BY ROBERT J. MORGAN From childhood, Félix Carvajal of Cuba loved walking and running. During the Spanish-American War, he was a courier who ran from post to post, delivering dispatches. After the war he became a Cuban mail carrier. One day Félix read about the 1904 Olympic […]
Read MoreMy Encounter with Jesus – Session 6 – Anchored to the Throne
Anchored to the Throne Because our Savior ascended to heaven, we have a sure hope. by ROBERT J. MORGAN AN OVERSEAS CHRISTIAN asked me a question I couldn’t answer: “Why don’t you Americans celebrate Ascension Sunday the way you do Christmas and Easter?” Churches in other countries, he said, emphasize Ascension and Pentecost, because those […]
Read MoreMy Encounter with Jesus – Session 3 – The Big Kind of Forgiveness
The Big Kind of Forgiveness Pray to love the one who has hurt you. by LEE ECLOV FORGIVENESS, AT LEAST TO A POINT, just makes good sense. You’ve probably heard the analogy that choosing not to forgive is like taking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. We can forgive a lot […]
Read MorePutting Fear in Its Place – Session 3 – Blessed Assurance
Blessed Assurance Because of God’s expressed love, we can rest in His arms. by COURTNEY DOCTOR DO YOU KNOW WHAT a “trust fall” is? It’s a team-building exercise where one person stands on an elevated platform, crosses her arms across her chest, closes her eyes, and falls backward into the arms of her teammates. Our […]
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