If you sow a seed and see no immediate results, don't get discouraged. A farmer doesn't get discouraged after he sows his field. He rejoices because he knows that as surely as he put that seed in the ground, a harvest is coming! If you share Christ with people and...
To help you assess where you need to be if your children are to grow up into a godly blueprint of your image, I'm sharing an important area in which every spiritual parent should purposely and consciously serve as examples. So prepare to make some mental notes...
I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Therefore I urge you,...
Years ago I planted a macadamia nut tree in our front yard. The gardener later put in a sprinkler system that watered it, and it eventually became a large, healthy tree that produced lots of delicious nuts. We eventually sold our house to a friend, and now he gets...
Time and time again, I have seen people following the ways of their spiritual mentors. I have friends in ministry who are incredibly anointed and gifted preachers, but their families are in trouble. Their wives are sorrowing due to neglect. Their children are...
For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. (1 Cor. 4:15) Fathers, like instructors, teach by precept, but they do more than that. Through example, they impart their character to their children and, in the...
There are a lot of people around who can't wait to tell you what you've done wrong, but there aren't many fathers willing to take the time and effort to help you grow up. (1 Cor. 4:15 The Message) One of the great tragedies in the world today is the lack of true...
Proverbs 11:3 says, "The integrity of the upright will guide them...." Once you have decided to walk in integrity, two-thirds of life's decisions are already made. If this decision in any way causes me to compromise my integrity, the answer is no. I don't need to...
What Jesus has done for the fathers in the faith, He will do for the sons and daughters—if they will imitate the faith of their fathers. Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their...
Years ago my oldest son, Harrison, came home from church with a styrofoam cup filled with soil. His Sunday school teacher had been telling the children about how God's Word works as a seed does, and that in order for it to grow and produce the things it promises,...
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