"How important it is to have friends! Proverbs 17:17 says, “A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” Someone paraphrased First Corinthians 13 in this way: “Friendship is slow to lose patience. It looks for a way...
READ MORE"Do you know where we need to be kind the most? In our homes. Why is it that sometimes we are the most unkind to those we love the best? The most cutting remarks sometimes occur in the home. Indeed, there are many marriages that could be sa...
READ MORE"The chief enemy to kindness is busyness. We have our priorities, our jobs, our duties, our responsibilities…we’re too busy. But if we are too busy to be kind, we are too busy. The Bible says: “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do go...
READ MORE"The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is “longsuffering.” I’ll tell you one thing about fruit—you will never see a fruit factory. Isn’t that right? You’ll see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard. You see, there is no fruit withou...
READ MORE"James 1:3-4 says: “Knowing this: That the trying of your faith worketh patience…” Now, the “tryings of your faith” James is talking about are those irritations, those imponderables, those inconveniences, trials, tears, and tribulations th...
READ MORE"It is cruel to say to people who are in sorrow, “Smile and be happy." People simply cannot be happy all the time. There is no way that people can paste a smile on their face and go around with a saccharine grin all the time. You are not ex...
READ MORE"First Peter 3:7 says, “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.” Most husban...
READ MORE"Did you know that there are no happy old people living in Satan’s camp? Now, he has some happy young people—those who are living high, wide and handsome right now. They have a certain modicum of fun and what we would call happiness. But Sa...
READ MORE"Sometimes I hear adults tell young people, “Make all the money you can, just so you make it honestly.” That’s not good advice. If you make all the money you can, you are going to be making money when you should be doing something else. Yo...
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