Tag: counsel

• Your Standard [1-minute read]

  15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,but a wise man listens to advice.–Proverbs 12 Israel was never more rebellious than in the book of Judges. That disastrous book carried with it this basic theme verse: In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his…

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  December 12, 2023

  proverbs

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• 7 Hopes for the Living

  4But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.–Ecclesiastes 9 Qoheleth’s point is easy. You who are still alive can do things. Even the greatest of the dead is still dead. So what are seven hopes to do good things we still have?…

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  June 9, 2023

  ecclesiastes

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• The First Counseling Session

  Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. 3In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, 5but for Cain and his…

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  March 7, 2023

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• 3 Discipleship Rules

  34And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.–Mark 8

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  February 20, 2023

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• What Rules the Selfish Heart?

  1Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines. 2Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”3But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not…

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  September 24, 2022

  judges

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• Your Own Understanding

  14So the men took some of their provisions, but did not ask counsel from the LORD.–Joshua 9 When I begin to journey with people, I collect data from them about their heart. How do they view God? How do they view life? What guides them as they make decisions? And one of my favorite exercises takes…

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  July 6, 2022

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• Your Own Counsel

  11“But my people did not listen to my voice;Israel would not submit to me.12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,to follow their own counsels.–Psalm 81 Asaph at times quoted God in this psalm. Here is one of those moments. What was God’s message? His people refused to do two things and so God…

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  May 30, 2022

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