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Fight within to win without!
If you’re looking for a fight, fight to overcome your attitude of hostility toward people. Real victory doesn’t come from arguing with and trying to overcome people. It comes from overcoming your inner enemies. Fight within to win without! When … Continue reading
Posted in a healthy mind, harmful thinking, mental health, mental health note, mind, peace of mind, positive thinking, renewing your mind, self-help, thinking, thoughts, tormenting thoughts
Tagged abortion, guilt, I'll fight, inner battle, mental battlefield, quote, resist the devil, spiritual warfare, suicide prevention, William Booth
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If it’s harmful, don’t do it. If it’s unkind, don’t say it. If it’s tormenting, don’t think it.
The thoughts and images that you have allowed in your mind were the seeds that produced the way you feel today.
Posted in advice, do it, do the math, Don't be afraid, harmful habit, harmful thinking, power of words, speak the truth in love, tormenting thoughts, Uncategorized, unkindness, wisdom, word of wisdom, words
Tagged If, If you can keep you head while all about you, poem, poetry, positive thinking, quote, Rudyard Kipling
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Living water is a dynamo flow, not a bottling plant
Bottled water is nice; but it is very limited and controlled. It’s good to give bottled water to thirsty people, but if done continually, people become dependent on the bottling plant, rather than on the true, living Source of the water. The … Continue reading
Posted in flow of the Spirit, flowing in the Spirit, flowing of the Holy Spirit, gifts of the Spirit, go with the flow, God's flow, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit promptings, inner flow, rivers of living water, Spirit's flow, spiritual flow, spiritual formation, spiritual gifts, Uncategorized
Tagged Body of Christ, bottled water, Christianity, church, innermost being, Jesus, living water, quote
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Ask not how a pastor can minister to you. Ask how you can minister to others!
Ask not how a pastor can minister to you. Ask how you can minister to others! People besides a preacher have something to say from God. Why not let them speak up in church? When many people freely speak, we … Continue reading
Posted in answered prayer, apologetics, Christiosity, curiosity, God answers prayer, high hopes, hope, humility, joy, mysticism, mystigetics, positive thinking, prayer, Uncategorized, wisdom
Tagged boundaries, Christianity, coining new word, conscious contact with God, faith, Kennedy ask not, quote
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Inauguration Day Thoughts: When you can’t see the light, it may be behind you.
Meanness & kindness are both boomerangs. Which will you throw? Persistent kindness melts away meanness. Try it and see. Returning kindness for hostility; is disarming. When you don’t see much kindness; break the tread & do something kind! Kindness & joy … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, audience, compromise, courage, discouragement, encouragement, inner Light, Nashville, peace, Quotations, Quotes, Random acts of kindness, Salvation Army, see the light, smartphones, Uncategorized, unkindness, with malice toward none
Tagged A.W. Tozer, Abraham Lincoln, Christianity, inauguration day, kindness, quote
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“Bride(zilla)”–A Radical Diagnosis Without Bold Answers
The Bride(zilla) of Christ — what a bold and radical assessment of church by authors Ted Kluck and Ronnie Martin. Here are some of their observations about church as it is usually done in the Western world: “One of my most … Continue reading
Posted in a new reformation, body of Christ, bride of Christ, Bridezilla of Christ, church decline, church hurt, consumerism, ekklesia, house church, how the body of Christ functions, organic church, radical reformation, reformation, Rodney King, simple church, Uncategorized, worship
Tagged Body of Christ, book review, Bride(zilla), Christianity, church, evangelicals, quote, Ronnie Martin, Ted Kluck
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Be kind — unbind your mind!
Posted in addictions, be kind, celebrate recovery, Christian recovery, freedom, inner peace, lovingkindness, overcoming addiction, peace of God, peace with God, peacemaking, recovery quotes, slogans, stress, Uncategorized, unkindness
Tagged addiction, anger issues, kindness, peace of mind, poem, quote, Random acts of kindness, recovery, stress management
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Can church services be rigged?
A process is rigged when it is tampered with and manipulated in order to replace the normal outcome with a desired result. For example, Donald Trump is making unsubstantiated claims that the American presidential election process is rigged against him. … Continue reading
Posted in election rigging, evangelicals, formal religion, organic chruch, organized religion, political environment, political issue, political positions, politics and religion, presidential election, stealing an election, Uncategorized, voter fraud
Tagged church, debate, Donald Trump, politics, quote, religion, rigged
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Hillary’s “unborn person”
Hillary Clinton said, “The unborn person has no constitutional rights.” That statement threatens the rights of us all. If we can deny the rights of “the unborn person” then what is going to stop us from denying rights to some other type … Continue reading
Posted in a woman's right to choose, abortion, American Constitution, anti-abortion, black lives matter, blue lives matter, choose life, Constitution, development of life, end of life, heart, homicide, human life, I'll fight, infanticide, liberty, liberty and justice for all, life matters, moral choices, mother's womb, murders, out of the womb, poem about abortion, police lives matter, political choice, prenatal, prenatal care, prenatal rights, prochoice, prolife, prolife prochoice, respect for life, right to abortion, right to choose, right to life, Row vs. Wade, suicide, Uncategorized, value of life, womb
Tagged abortion, all lives matter, constitutional rights, Hillary Clinton, human rights, Obama, quote, unborn person, Zika
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