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What Produces the Fruit of the Spirit?
Pruning Produces More Fruit My wife is originally from Crabapple, Ga.—a charming community north of Atlanta. When God blessed us with our first home, we thought it was a good idea to plant a crabapple tree by the path to the front door. We didn’t anticipate it growing...
A Christmas Letter from the Board of Directors
On behalf of the Abiding Word Ministry board of directors, Merry Christmas! This letter is an update on our ministry work in 2019 and how you can help us do more in 2020.
An Incredible Inheritance
Imagine receiving an overnight letter from an attorney. This letter explains that a long lost relative had died leaving you an enormous fortune. All you need to do is claim it. Most people probably wouldn’t ignore a letter like that. But imagine those same people who...
The Key to Better Relationships
Relationships are much like tennis with lots of back and forth. But what if the goal wasn’t to win, but instead to keep the ball in play?
The Danger of Comparisons
People are born comparers. Comparison isn’t a bad thing in and of itself, but it can lead to bigger problems in our life.
The Most Important Question You Need to Ask Yourself
Life is full of questions. Some questions start early. Some are more complex. For some, there are answers. For others, not so much.
Finding the Right Counselor
Sometimes it’s easy to find the right person to help us. Other times, it’s not as easy. How do we go about finding help to life’s problems?
The Ultimate Home Makeover
Imagine that each of our lives is a house that we are building. Now imagine that at the moment of our salvation, we turned the title deed of our house over to the Lord. That’s precisely what the Apostle Paul meant when he said that “our lives are not our own for we are bought with a price.”
The Jigsaw Puzzle of Faith
Imagine having a large zip lock bag full of jigsaw puzzle pieces. But you don’t have the box with the picture the puzzle will create. The Bible can be a lot like that puzzle.
The OODA Loop
Col. John Boyd may be one of the most influential military strategists of the twentieth century. Boyd is perhaps best known for “The OODA Loop,” a thought process to help pilots quickly think through complex situations, in which a split second can mean the difference between life and death.
How to Get Help When You’ve Fallen Out of Love
Marriage seems so simple. A couple meets, falls deeply in love, gets married, and lives happily ever after. Right? That’s how it happens in the movies. But if that’s true, why are so many people today not bothering to get married? And of those who do, nearly half end in divorce. Perhaps it’s not so simple after all.
A New Year’s Resolution Worth Keeping
In many ways life is like “Let’s Make A Deal.” Each day presents us with hundreds of choices. There are the obvious choices between right and wrong. Far more often, we choose between good and better, or between better and best.