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Teen Perspective "Godly Influences" Part 5

There is truly no uglier sin than the sin of pride. Prideful people are repugnant and repulsive and are so because they generally push others aside to gain their own glory. Christians are expected to find pride especially unacceptable because we stand next to the one and only one who deserves glory, honor and praise, and that’s the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus says to us “Follow Me!” and when we follo...

There is truly no uglier sin than the sin of pride. Prideful people are repugnant and repulsive and are so because they generally push others aside to gain their own glory. Christians are expected to find pride especially unacceptable because we stand next to the one and only one who deserves glory, honor and praise, and that’s the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus says to us “Follow Me!” and when we follo...

Teen Perspective "Integrity in the Small Things" Part 4

Kindness is one of those traits in people that we all love to experience. The “kind” people in our lives are people that we’re drawn to like a magnet. Lately however, it seems like someone opened a hateful drain and all the kindness in the world has rushed out, flushed away. But we know that while it feels like there’s no more kindness in the world, we also know it’s not true because we’re in the...

Kindness is one of those traits in people that we all love to experience. The “kind” people in our lives are people that we’re drawn to like a magnet. Lately however, it seems like someone opened a hateful drain and all the kindness in the world has rushed out, flushed away. But we know that while it feels like there’s no more kindness in the world, we also know it’s not true because we’re in the...

Our world is a place where injustice abounds. So many in our world suffer and they do so needlessly. Sad but true, so many in our world suffer and do so needlessly, simply because people ignore their suffering, don’t care about others and/or won’t help even if they can. However, we serve a living God who does care about us and those we encounter...and a living God who furthermore wants something d...

Our world is a place where injustice abounds. So many in our world suffer and they do so needlessly. Sad but true, so many in our world suffer and do so needlessly, simply because people ignore their suffering, don’t care about others and/or won’t help even if they can. However, we serve a living God who does care about us and those we encounter...and a living God who furthermore wants something d...

The last two commandments about coveting are an important reminder that it’s not just our actions that God governs, but even our very thoughts...and this can be a really tough subject for us! Who hasn’t looked at a friend’s car and thought to themselves “I wish I had a car like that!” Who hasn’t seen a friend’s house and said “I wish we had the money for a home like that!” We do this all the time....

The last two commandments about coveting are an important reminder that it’s not just our actions that God governs, but even our very thoughts...and this can be a really tough subject for us! Who hasn’t looked at a friend’s car and thought to themselves “I wish I had a car like that!” Who hasn’t seen a friend’s house and said “I wish we had the money for a home like that!” We do this all the time....

Luke 3 1-22

Teen Perspective "Who You Are" Part 1

For the most part, your normal, average person would agree that stealing is out of bounds for anyone, but especially for a Christian. So, if you told your Christian friends that you had broken into your neighbor’s house and taken your neighbor’s possessions, they’d never invite you over again and wonder if you were saved. If you told your Christian friends that you had no problem stealing cars, th...

For the most part, your normal, average person would agree that stealing is out of bounds for anyone, but especially for a Christian. So, if you told your Christian friends that you had broken into your neighbor’s house and taken your neighbor’s possessions, they’d never invite you over again and wonder if you were saved. If you told your Christian friends that you had no problem stealing cars, th...

4. Trusted The Art of Civility really comes down to the valuing of others over and above the valuing of our own opinions as we interact with them. If we engage in conversation with the goal to win, be right, be heard and get our point across, then in many ways we have already lost. We have lost the Art of Civility and traded it for pride of an opinion. We want people to feel heard, understood, res...

We live in a world where vitriolic rhetoric is the norm, not the exception. It’s disturbingly sad the way so many in our world speak hatefully about other people. Often, even worse, what they are saying is at the very least a half-truth if not an outright lie. Unfortunately, this isn’t some benign thing that happens between people half a world away, it also happens between people who are so-called...