Discipline
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Bridling the Tongue – Luke 12:3
If you wouldn’t say it to someone’s face, don’t say it!” Good advice, wise and true, and we should take it, thereafter limiting our comments about people to those that we would say…
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Self Control – Galatians 5:22-23
In a classic cartoon, Cathy, the perpetual dieter, starts out saying she will not go to the grocery store. Through a series of frames, Cathy decides to take a drive but not go…
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Bearing Fruit – John 12:24
God wants to use His children to do great things for His kingdom. He wants us to perform the good and profitable works for which He created us in Christ Jesus, and He…
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Remnants of Sin – Romans 7:24
Though I long for a pure and tender heart, my old nature continues to show itself in untoward ways. How I long for a gentleness that would have cheerfully allowed the diminutive foreign…
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Listening – Job 21:2
In our folly and to our shame, "wisdom" sometimes rushes forth from our lips before we have even heard what another has to say. Our intentions may be good, but the result may…
