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The Two Most Important Commandments - Love
Love is mentioned well over 350 times in the Bible. I'm sure God must be trying to tell us something. We will start our study with Matthew 22:37-38; And He replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the most important and first commandment.
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Controlling What YOU Hear By Watching What YOU Say
Controlling What YOU Hear By Watching What YOU Say:
If you’re going to listen to anyone you’re going to hear yourself. It does not matter what anyone in the world says about you, it means nothing until you allow it to get into your spirit and you begin to say what is being said to you.
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Chicken Soup with Chopsticks: A Jew's Struggle for Truth in an Interfaith Relationship (excerpts)
Even as I started dating a Chinese girl, I knew I was embarking on a remarkable adventure. I just had no idea where and how far the adventure would take me. The more events unfolded, the more I realized that my view of the world and how I lived in it were being profoundly and permanently altered...
If the problem with marrying a gentile was that my religion prohibited intermarriage, why should that bother me? Perhaps not everything in Judaism made sense, and as an intelligent and thinking individual I could take from my heritage what I felt was meaningful and disregard the rest...
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Authentic Prayers
We diminish the integrity of our prayers when we foolishly attempt to use God as a means of straightening out the mess we, ourselves, have created. Getting yourself in debt and begging God to get you out from under is not praying. Mumbling words to Him when your back is against the wall is not praying.
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Is There More To This Life?
I often ask myself this question. Not in the times of prosperity or when everything is going great. But, in the times when I feel alone or everything seems to be stagnant. There has been this lurking question underneath all the good times and all the bad times.
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Counsel for Non Church Goers
Do you stay away from church because you think the Bible is a fairy tale? Do you love to sleep in on Sunday morning? Not going to church has the advantage of having free time. There is something that you need to know before you make a habit of not going to church. The Bible is from God. It has some bad news. It also has some good news that you need to examine. You need to read this article...
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How Useful is a Dream Dictionary Really?
Have you ever had tried to find out the meaning of your dream using a dream dictionary? It's frustrating huh? Here's some tips on how to make sure the dream dictionary you're using - whether online or offline - is going to be useful.
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Natural Talent
No one comes to this world without a gift or special talent that is not unique to him/her alone. The gifts that we bring are the tools we will use to experience physical life in our own special way. For some it is obvious, for others one may have to look a little deeper. The use of such gifts or talents are also subject to interpretation and are often used for purposes other than what we wanted to experience before birth. Most of us spend a lifetime searching for the connection to them.
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Let Your Will, Not Mine, Be Done
Can I be honest with you? There are days when I just don’t feel like getting up in the morning. I’m noticing this a lot lately because the weather is changing and it’s pretty cold early in the morning when I awake to start my day. There are days when I move that blanket off of me and quickly snatch it back because it’s too cold to get up.
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Negative Disturbances
Whenever we have the opportunity to make human assessments, the assessments we make will always betray our doctrine of man. We can always glean from what one person has to say about another, their doctrine or philosophy concerning man in general.
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Abundance As Spiritual Birthright
Infinite Intelligence desires the abundant fulfillment of your earnest desires MORE than you do and has set up the universe to fulfill them.
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Choosing Our Parents
There's a Native American belief that before we are born, we choose our parents. It actually ties in pretty nicely with the reincarnation idea that we prearrange certain circumstances before each li...
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Change Your Outlook on Change
Make no mistake about it, change is challenging whether it is conscious or unexpected. Viewing adversity as change, not loss or failure, is part of empowered and positive thinking.
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God Is Waiting To Bless Me
This is an article about how I came to the decision to move to Guatemala and become a teacher at an International school.
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Dead Man Walking
What does it mean to be a dead man walking? How can you
walk and be dead at the same time? Unless you have died
to yourself and given your soul to Christ, you are a dead
man walking!
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Letting Go of Judgment - Finding Good (God) In Others
Everyday we make thousands of judgments about people, places, situations and events. Judgment can protect us and keep us from making mistakes but judgment can also prevent us from seeing clearly. So how do we know the difference?
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The Meaning and Facts of Life
Why are we really here? Do we have a destination to fulfill or
is our existence just by chance? The answer is yes, we have
a definite purpose on this earth. Do you know what yours is?
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The Winds of Change
Take a moment and go within. Can you feel the winds of change? If you cannot feel it within yourself, look at the world around you. Can you see how the winds of change buffet your family, friends and coworkers? The winds of change, of course, are the underlying cause of your major news stories.
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Stress 9 - Relieving Stress with the Proper Diet
You are never too busy for good nutrition! A healthy body can be enhanced by eating a balanced meal three times a day. Try to avoid foods with high sugar and salt levels because it has been known to escalate the stress level. Women, you may find that your body needs-
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Stress Management - Give Me The Symptoms Of Stress
This article looks at the common symptoms of short and long term stress. It pinpoints the differences between the two types of stress, what the symptoms are and why the symptoms differ in both cases.
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Winning With Whiners, 10 Commandments
Winning with whiners can be quite a battle. They often complain, murmur, and tattle. You cannot be a winner if you're frequently associating with whiners. If you seemingly have no way out due to working or living conditions, here are 10 ways to win with whiners.
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