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Fifteen Indispensable Pursuits That Prepare the Next Generation for Marriage

Here are “Thirteen indispensable pursuits that prepare the next generation for marriage.”

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Every Life Has a Story

This video clip was made to train Chick-fil-A employees how to think about and treat customers who come in to the store. It’s about compassion for hurting people. It made me remember, over three decades ago, my preaching professor in seminary saying many times, “Preach to broken hearts.” Now, when …

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A Life Giving Recipe: How to Build Up Your Church

Here is a step-by-step recipe I have seen work successfully over and over again throughout the course of my life. I share this amazing recipe today so that when you identify these lifegiving ingredients at work in your life, you will know what you may are stirring up…

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Internet Gossip

With the explosion of the use of the Internet, it has become easy to set up a website to “get the truth out” about someone or some event that has taken place…

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An Angry Countenance Drives Away Gossip

Recently, an older man came to me with a quandary. It seems he was frustrated that people, from time to time, came to him with gripes about other people in the church. He did not understand why they would come to him. He did not want to talk about these things, and did not want these things to be brought to him…..

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Wisdom, the Heart, and the Power of the Tongue

Reb Bradley wrote this great article on the power of the tongue. In it, he identifies what gossip is, how to minimize the spread of slander and gossip proactively, and how to respond to signs of division.…

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Diagnosis and Cure for a Disaffected Church Member

Here is a fantastic article on the anatomy of disaffection: diagnosing the problem and giving the solution. Are you on this track? Reb Bradley offers important counsel on how to make your way back to honor.

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The Difference Between a Gossiper and a Buzzard

I heard this somewhere, The difference between a buzzard and a gossiper is that the buzzard waits till the victim is dead.

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Positive Things You Can Do to Prevent Yourself from Backbiting

We’re all familiar with how bad backbiting and slander are. The judgment against this kind of behavior is terrifying. But what do you do positively in order to keep yourself from falling into this sin?  It is much easier to identify negatively how despicable this sin really is and what …

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A Poisonous Recipe: How to Destroy Your Church

Here is a step-by-step recipe I have seen work successfully over and over again throughout the course of my life. This Sunday I am preaching on the positive ways to avoid the sin of gossip by employing the fruit of the Spirit. But I share this dangerous recipe today so that when you identify these poisonous ingredients in your life, you will know what you may be inadvertently stirrin

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12 Questions on Handling Your Tongue

Have you ever wondered how to handle all the cases of gossip, backbiting, whispering, etc.? Here’s a few directives from Richard Baxter. Tomorrow, I plan to post another series from Baxter. …

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Gossip Lasts Longer and Travels Further Than You Intended

One of the truly heartbreaking results of gossip is that, while it is so easy to do, and comes so naturally,  it causes  hardships far and wide – further and wider than we ever thought. Here is an excerpt from Kent Hughes commentary on Acts on the difficulty gossip presents …

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Thirteen Indispensable Pursuits That Prepare the Next Generation for Marriage

Here are “Thirteen indispensable pursuits that prepare the next generation for marriage.”

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Shedding Innocent Blood

Each week two teams from our church make their way to two local abortion clinics – one on Thursday and the other on Saturday. They go in the compassion of Christ for the souls of others….

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Are Dads the New Moms?

In this video clip, “The age of the involved dad has arrived.” There is a cultural sea change…they are children on the women’s movement and the culture of divorce. She says, “There used to be a difference between father and mother…now they are morphing into a unisex/spouse/parent.”

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