Strategies for Christian Living
Strategies for Christian Living
This page carries articles that aim to help our understanding and planning abilities. Its goal is to provide information which can better help us know what the Bible means and what it is saying to us. Our understanding of the strategic goals of Christianity informs our tactics as well as our spiritual aspirations. The more we understand God’s word, the more we understand what our goals should be in the Christian life and how we can best help ourselves and others.
Short Strategic Notes From Our Blog
What Forgiving and Forgetting Really Means
We all know the wisdom of the old saying that we should “forgive and forget” and although that exact phrase does not appear in the Bible, it does summarize Biblical principles of forgiveness. There are, of course, many scriptures telling us that we...
Not Rushing to Anger
The Bible gives us good advice on how to deal with feelings of anger - something that we all experience from time to time. However, perhaps the clearest and most detailed example of this strategy comes from an unexpected source which most people miss in their...
Why the Spies?
What do your problems and the spies that we are told God sent into the Promised Land have in common? For that matter, what does a book written fifty years ago by Allen Dulles, the first civilian director of the CIA, tell us about God’s spies and the...
Strategic Articles
What Do You Want?
A wise man once said that the first things we do in life are to map our world and to want what we don’t have. But do those things bring us happiness when we get them? In this season of frantic holiday buying and wanting, many find no real happiness in...
The Growing Seed
Perhaps the most difficult concept for the original hearers of the teachings of Jesus to understand was that of the Kingdom of God. Doubtless because of that fact, and its centrality in his message, Christ gave his disciples more parables on the Kingdom than on any...
Forgiveness Day
There are so many special “days” now, it’s impossible to remember many of them. I’m not talking about national holidays such as Thanksgiving and other significant days which apply to many of us, but the burgeoning number of days which...
