Tactics for Christian Living
Tactics for Christian Living
When spiritual warfare comes to mind, we tend to think of the armor and weapons God provides (Ephesians 6:11-17), but we don’t think as often about the tactics we need to employ in the spiritual battles we face. Nevertheless, God’s word does have a number of things to say about the tactical aspects of Christian life. Some of the tactics we are urged to utilize are very basic things we can do almost effortlessly if we make them a habit, others require more work, yet they can be the difference between defeat and victory. The articles that will appear on this page focus on tactics you can use today.
Short Tactical Notes
Moving Ahead by Stopping More Often
You know the feeling. You are about to do or say something, or you pause in a chain of thought, when you suddenly tell yourself that something is not right, that it may not be good to continue with the thought, word or action. There is nothing mystical about it, but...
Job’s Friends
They’re the Biblical characters we “love to hate” – the friends who said more unfriendly things than they should have done, the friends God reproved for what they said. Yet were they all bad? This week, on the Tactical Living page, we...
Before You Ask
You know how a compass works. The floating needle or direction arrow points toward the earth’s magnetic pole. You also know what happens if the compass comes close to a local magnetic source – the direction arrow gets pulled away from its...
Tactical Articles
The Savvy Samaritan
You know the situations. As you walk out of a shopping center you are approached by someone who asks: "Could you spare a few dollars? – I need help.” We have seen the signs many people carry - pulling at heart strings from...
Four Tests of Forgiveness
By R. Herbert “… forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses” (Mark 11:25). We all know that as Christians we must forgive if we are to receive forgiveness ourselves, but the path to...
Mark His Words; Making the Most of Bible Highlighting
It doesn’t take long for most Christians to discover that a marked Bible can be a whole lot more useful than an unmarked one. Not only does Bible marking make important verses stand out, but also it enables us to add notes and symbols that help us remember,...
What Pleases God?
In Ephesians 5:10 Paul wrote “… try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord,” and it is a clear indicator that we are making progress in the Christian life if we feel the desire to do exactly this. But what is pleasing to God? Is it just becoming...
Studying through BibleGateway
BibleGateway.com is, of course, one of the leading Bible translation websites used to provide hyperlink scripture references on this and many other sites. If you only use BibleGateway occasionally to look up a verse or an alternative translation, you are missing...
Battle Plans
In Deuteronomy 20 we find the special instructions God gave to ancient Israel as it was about to enter the Promised Land. These instructions were the “tactical briefs” given to Israel’s fighting forces. At first sight they may seem...
