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Authentic Relationships: Submitting to One Another
[Submission] is the ability to lay down the terrible burden of always needing to get your own way. Richard Foster (Celebration of Discipline)
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Fear-free Courage?
My second oldest son, David, decided to do a tandem skydive and invited me to come along. We had been discussing this for a few years, and now the right opportunity had presented itself! It was a unique experience, starting with the copious paperwork you signed to release the skydiving company from all liability. The message was that this can be a perilous experience where things can go wrong, and you must go into this endeavor with that understanding. To be forewarned is to be forearmed – fair enough! Next, we suited up, put on a harness, received training on our responsibilities during the jump, boarded the small single-engine plane, and…
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Authentic Relationships: Confessing Your Sins to and Being of the Same Mind Toward One Another
Our churches are filled with people who outwardly look contented and at peace, but inwardly are crying out for someone to love them… they are confused, frustrated, frightened, guilty, and often unable to communicate with their own families. But other people in the church look so happy and contented that one seldom has the courage to admit his own deep needs before such a self-sufficient group as the average church meeting appears to be. Keith Miller
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Authentic Relationships: Praying for One Another
To pray “in Jesus’ name” means to pray in His Spirit, in His compassion, in His love, in His outrage, in His concern. In other words, it means to pray a prayer that Jesus Himself might pray. Kenneth L. Wilson
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Authentic Relationships: Instructing and Admonishing One Another
The person who hears the reproof that leads to life is at home among the wise. King Solomon (Proverbs 15:31)
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Authentic Relationships: Serving, Carrying Burdens and Building Up One Another
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found to serve. …
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The Feasts of Israel – Dedication (Hanukkah)
(18) These are the Lord’s appointed times, holy assemblies, which you must proclaim at their appointed time. (Leviticus 23:4 NET)
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Authentic Relationships: Being Kind, Compassionate, and Sharing with One Another
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa
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Authentic Relationships: Greeting and Being Hospitable to One Another
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie
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Authentic Relationships: Being Devoted to Another and Honoring Another Above Ourselves
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde
