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Keys For The Christian Living: Making Decisions

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Keys For The Christian Living: Making Decisions Summary:  Life is filled with decisions, many of which never even reach our conscious level.  Often the same decision-making process we use for minor issues is used for major decisions as well. So the question is: How do we choose wisely? Series: Keys For The Christian Living Scripture:  Genesis 18:20-33 Date:  29 January, 2017 ILLUS   A man had been made the president of a bank at a relatively young age. Not feeling that confident, he went to see the elderly chairman of the board for some advice. "How can I succeed as president", he asked. "By making the right decisions." "But how do I make the right decisions?" "Experience." "But that's precisely my problem. I don't have much experience. How do I get the experience so I can make the right decisions?" "By making the wrong decisions". There is a thought-provoking scene in Lewis Carroll’s classi...

Keys For The Christian Living: Living Honestly

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Keys For The Christian Living: Living Honestly Summary:  Just like Abraham and his son Isaac, it's easy for ordinary people to fall into a pattern of lying.  But honesty is the foundation of all our relationships because it's the basis of trust . Series: Keys For The Christian Living Scripture:  Genesis 20.1-13 and Genesis 26.1-11 Date:  08 January, 2017 Scripture Reading Take your Bibles and rise to your feet, turn with me now and Read  Genesis 20.1-13 and Genesis 26.1-11 Genesis 20:1-13 20  And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. 2  And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. 3  But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. 4  But Abimelech ...