Equipping Christians to become disciples
The love of the truth is a technical phrase used in the Bible. It refers to having a heart-attitude which values and pursues the truth for its own sake, not just because we want to avoid getting into trouble for lying. In the verse below, apostle Paul …
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For an honest person, one of the most shameful and humiliating things imaginable would be to be caught out in telling a lie. Even the thought of doing that and being found out and exposed makes me squirm. But that is not how habitual liars …
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Once a person begins to lie, they will do it again in bigger ways, and with increasing frequency. Then lying gets easier, in the following ways: a) Our conscience is slowly turned down in volume, until it is eventually switched off completely. This is how …
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I have been a police officer, and then I was a solicitor and businessman for many years after that. If I had to say in one word what is the greatest single cause of difficulty within the workplace, I would say it is dishonesty. I …
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We saw in the previous chapter how the prophet Samuel was a completely honest Judge. Nobody in Israel could point to even one corrupt thing that he had ever done. What a testimony! That should be our standard. Most of us will never be judges, …
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One day, when He was speaking to His disciples, Jesus made an unusual claim about Himself. He said He is…….“the way, the truth and the life”…… For the moment, we need to concern ourselves with the second assertion, i.e. that Jesus is the truth. He …
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“—-For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice” John 18:37(b) (RSV) 47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite …
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A feature which is found in the vast majority of people, even among the best, is that they tend to have limits, beyond which their faithfulness does not go, or does not continue. In other words, even the best of us tend only to be …
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On a similar theme, there is a temptation, as you get older, to become casual and to assume that you have now learned how to handle pressures and temptations. You may then begin to loosen your standards and to think that it is safe for …
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We all know that failure and difficulty are a challenge. However, as we have seen above, in terms of maintaining our faithfulness, success is a much harder test. When a person fails, or suffers, the obvious thing to do is to turn to God for …
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