Tag: influence
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The Vigilant Heart
23Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.24Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.25Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.26Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.27Do not swerve to the right or…
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Never Been This Way
“When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it. 4Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before.–Joshua 3
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Start a Legacy
9Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.–Deuteronomy 4 What have you seen? I’ll tell you what I’ve seen in 20+…
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Generational Influence
1You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. 2Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. 3Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what…
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Access [1-minute read]
11Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have done nothing but bless them!” 12He answered, “Must I not speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”–Numbers 23
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Coming Out, Not Going In [1-minute read]
18And [Jesus] said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21For from within, out…
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Answering a Fool [1-minute read]
4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.5Answer a fool according to his folly,lest he be wise in his own eyes.–Proverbs 26 Is this a side-by-side biblical contradiction? These verses are literally one right after another. Think of these verses in terms of boundaries and influence. In verse 4,…
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Guard Your Heart
23Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.24Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.25Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.26Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.27Do not swerve to the right or…
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Imitation
1And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.–1 Corinthians 11 This was finishing Paul’s point. You’ll recognize my favorite verse in there again. I wrote about it yesterday. So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. Don’t give offense to Jews or Gentiles or the…
Joel M Bradshaw 