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Resources for Moral Living.. around the web….. A New Season is an Opportunity….. … with all your heart and with all your SOUL…..
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Resources for Moral Living
Today I share with you some of the resources I turn to often:
Plus a new resource we just recently discovered:
You might also be interested in my series, here at Habits:
- The Habit of Moral Living, Part I – The founders of our nation believed in a moral code of conduct. Whatever their personal beliefswhether Christian, Unitarian, or Deistthe moral code by which they conducted themselves was based in the Christian Bible. In the general principles of Christianity can be found the underpinnings of our republic.
- The Habit of Moral Living, Part 2 – The solid foundation of morals is the Christian faith. It is a faith of absolutes. We can know what is right and what is wrong. The truths expressed in the bible are unassailable. The republic formed using biblical Christianity as a foundation has endured over 230 years. Liberty was achieved.
- The Habit of Moral Living, Part 3 – What happens when people reject Godthe moral foundation of their society? Benjamin Franklin said that as nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. The apostle Paul, speaking to the church at Rome, spoke of those who rejected God and the consequences of that rejection.
- The Habit of Moral Living, Part 4 – Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.John Adams, October 11, 1798What happens to people who reject God? For He is the very moral underpinning of a civil society. Without Him, the republic cannot subsist any length of time.
- The Habit of Moral Living, Part 5 - The Apostle Paul expands upon his essay about those with defective thinking in the book of Galatians. In chapter 5, he provides a list of behaviors produced by the selfish motives of the defective thinker.
What are your favorite resources?
       
around the web
 I have been blogging around the web posts on my personal blog for a few years, and thought I might also share some of my finds here at Habits.
Five misdiagnosed symptoms | The Cripplegate
In the Emergency Room, decisions of life and death are regularly made with extreme pressure and very limited information. Symptoms present themselves and a trained, discerning mind diagnoses the real issue. Get it right and the treatment plan takes over. Get it wrong and not even the best treatment plan is able to fully help.
But what about diagnosing spiritual problems? Only God is omniscient and has a full, uninfluenced view of the human heart (1 Samuel 16:7). As believers, our discernment must be driven by the insights and fruit Scripture directs us toward as His Word exposes and corrects issues of the heart (Matthew 7:20; Hebrews 4:12-13). Many more could be added, but here are five symptoms that are commonly misdiagnosed by pastors:
A Guy’s Take on Modesty–From a Beach Trip – Inside Girls’ Ministry
March, I had the privilege of spending a week in Panama City serving alongside some amazing college students from all over the country at a LifeWay event called Beach Reach. My role was to speak to college students as they prepared to share Christ in practical ways with their peersspring breakers looking for all manner of MTV-style fun. God moved and the experience was fruitful.
As a pastor, (12 years in kids/student ministry), I was alarmed by what I saw.
6 Unbiblical Methods for Change | Counseling One Another
Many professing Christians seek change in their lives using methods which are contrary to Scripture. As a result, they dont experience the change which God seeks to produce in his people. In the very helpful booklet, HELP! Want to Change, which I refer to as a primer on progressive sanctification, pastor and biblical counselor Jim Newheiser mentions six common, but ineffective, methods for lasting personal transformation.
Georgia Voters to Consider Charter School Constitutional Amendment | Heartlander…
The law, up until a few years ago, only allowed a local school system to charter a school, said Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock). You didnt see a lot of great return in terms of academic achievement because a lot of the same people who were running the school before the conversion were running it after. Start-ups, time and time and time again, were defeated. Essentially these start-up charter organizations came to legislators and said we need another authorizer because the local system wont approve us.
Please Dont Ask about My Child | Home Educating Family Association Blog
You run into an old friend at your homeschool support group you havent seen in quite some time. You do a bit of catch-up, the chit chat goes on for a while, and then, here it comesthe question youve been dreadingSo, hows that daughter [or son] of yours doing?
Paste on that smile. Take in a quick breath, but inside, die . . . just a bit.
Second (2nd) Grade Skills | Grade Level Help at Internet 4 Classrooms
‘A Test You Need to Fail’: A Teacher’s Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students | C…
Dear 8th Graders,
Im sorry.
(llustration: David McLiman)
I didnt know.
I spent last night perusing the 150-plus pages of grading materials provided by the state in anticipation of reading and evaluating your English Language Arts Exams this morning. I knew the test was pointlessthat it has never fulfilled its stated purpose as a predictor of who would succeed and who would fail the English Regents in 11th grade. Any thinking person wouldve ditched it years ago. Instead, rather than simply give a test in 8th grade that doesnt get kids ready for the test in 11th grade, the state opted to also give a test in 7th grade to get you ready for your 8th-grade test.
But we already knew all of that.
What I learned is that the test is also criminal.
5 Things You Should Know about … | The Resurgence
If child molesters are so good at what they do, what steps can the faith community take to ensure that they dont succeed? Learning how offenders think and act is the first step in developing protective antennas, which can keep our community safe from those who pose a risk to our little ones. This post will examine five basic behavioral characteristics offenders that must be understood if we are committed to making the faith community a safe community.
Video: Some people are going to get hurt | Communicate Jesus
This short but powerful video unpacks the practical outworkings of Dawkins beliefs. It was developed to support the Doubting Dawkins campaign. If you are viewing this in an email or RSS reader, please click here to watch the video.
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A New Season is an Opportunity
to be conformed more and moreinto the image of CHRIST!!
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven
A new season may bring beauty,joy, and all kinds of wonders that ourflesh and even our spirit enjoys, but it can also bring physical, emotional and spiritually sickness, pain, grief, loss, sorrow, and all sorts of other difficulties. Yet, it is through these trials that we can growin dependence, in trust, in love, in grace, in mercy, and it is in these times that we grow to maturity.
Embrace a new season with its trials, because when you do, you actually embrace HIM and HIS work in you. When we embrace, we actually submit, and when we submit, we gain all that HE plans for us to have. In essence we gain our victory in and through HIM. Our victory means that we have been conformed more and more into the image of CHRIST!!
Romans: 5:1Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, wea have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2Through him we have also obtained access by faithb into this grace in which we stand, and wec rejoiced in hope of the glory of God. 3More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5and hope does not put us to shame, because Gods love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
James 1:2Count it all joy, my brothers,b when you meet trials of various kinds, 3for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Ecclesiastes 3 ….. A Time for Everything
1There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven2A time to give birth and a time to die;A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. 3A time to kill and a time to heal;A time to tear down and a time to build up. 4A time to weep and a time to laugh;A time to mourn and a time to dance. 5A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing. 6A time to search and a time to give up as lost;A time to keep and a time to throw away. 7A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;A time to be silent and a time to speak. 8A time to love and a time to hate;A time for war and a time for peace.9What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? 10I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.
God Set Eternity in the Heart of Man…..11He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in ones lifetime; 13moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his laborit is the gift of God. 14I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him. 15That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by.
       
with all your heart and with all your SOUL
There is a new app. I downloaded for my iPhone that is awesome! It is called “FighterVerse”. It is an app that helps you memorize scripture. There are quizzes and “fill-in the blanks” that helps you memorize weekly scripture. And it really works! A couple of weeks ago the verse was Deuteronomy 6:4-5. I have read this scripture or heard it at least 50 times, but as I was memorizing it God began to convict me of one little phrase, “Hear O Isreal, the Lord our God; the Lord our God is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”
As a mom, my soul gets pretty neglected. From sun up or from “son up” to “son down”, there is not much time to tend to my soul AND getting everything else accomplished. I can whine and play the martyr card all day but ultimately my soul is my responsibility. And the bottom line is, I am commanded to love God with all my soul.If our soul is neglected and we are in the survival mom mode (that mode where laundry, groceries, chores, children are all we think about), we are at a disadvantage to “love the Lord with all our soul”.
These are some simple practical steps I thought of to tend to our soul:
-take a walk
-put on make up and do your hair
-take a bubble bath
- paint, draw, sing, dance…. spend time cultivating your gifts
- play! Go to one of those jumpy places and play just as hard as your kids!
- rest … take a nap!
- treat yourself to some coffee or sweet tea
- read a book
- I read a fantastic blog the other day that mentioned cleaning as tending to the soul. (This may not be so for some but I know I can not even begin to think on the Lord if my house is a disaster. ) In the response to the old adage to forget the laundry and play with your kids she responded, “
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