Genesis 4:5 But He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell. The human angry face is the “signaling function”; it exposes the person’s erratic emotional surge and the physical ability to fight. The human angry face communicates interpersonal hostility by lowering the eyebrows, widening the nose or pressing...
Category: Pastoral
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21 October 2024 – Anger Management – Part 1
James 1:19-20 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Anger is an intense primary emotion. It is an antagonizing emotion to pain and a reactionary emotion to express negative...
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20 October 2024 – Associations & Affinities – Part 7
Acts 4:13 “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.” “Character is like pregnancy, you can’t hide it forever” – African Proverb. If we walk through a perfume factory we will carry the...
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19 October 2024 – Associations & Affinities – Part 6
Genesis 13:10 & 11b Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)… The two men parted company: The company we choose to be in would determine our...
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18 October 2024 – Associations & Affinities – Part 5
James 4:4 You adulterous people! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. Our relationship with the Lord is like a marriage covenant. He must always be first...
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17 October 2024 – Associations & Affinities – Part 4
Daniel 1:8 But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. “Tell me your friend and I’ll tell you who you are” – Spanish Proverb. “Ghrelin” is the “hunger hormone” that communicates to our brain that we...
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16 October 2024 – Associations & Affinities – Part 3
Mark 5:39-40 He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him. After He put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. “Talk unbelief,...
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15 October 2024 – Associations & Affinities – Part 2
Genesis 8:7 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up. “The only things I believe the Bible says we should hate are the very things God hates,” Franklin Graham. The raven got...
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14 October 2024 – Associations & Affinities – Part 1
Genesis 26:2 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. “One of the most expensive things you could ever do is pay attention to the wrong people” – Dr. Henry Cloud Choosing our associations and affinities sets the stone for...
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13 October 2024 – Bridle the Tongue – Part 7
Matthew 15:11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.” “Talk less… Do more… Let your actions show what you’re against and what you’re for…” – Dusty Holcomb Scientific research has proved that excessive talking causes cognitive fatigue, difficulty to concentrate, short-term memory...