Hopefully, we have learned the need we have to dehectify our life and how to begin that process. Next we moved on to the importance and effect of vetting our thoughts and actions. We can now learn in this third part of the series how rest is an imperative part of our life and the…
This teaching shows the negative effect not vetting our thoughts and actions has on us. In practical terms it boils down to how much impact we allow others to have on our own self-worth and personal freedom. You will find it quite contemporary as he discusses the media’s number one product for sale. They market…
In the viewing of this teaching you can learn how important it is to guard our hearts and minds. To dehectify (a term that he has coined) is to remove the hectic aspects of life to achieve our life purpose and worthwhile goals.
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (Advice from Atticus Finch, the father, to his daughter in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.) Doing this requires active empathy and living compassion. We’re…
Since all of us had to be in quarantine, this teaching is a way to look at the benefits of being in it. The Scriptures show us how to rightly view this time of seclusion. In this teaching we will see that quarantine is a place of safety and free from disease. It can be…
A long time ago I learned that God is a lot smarter than me. Isaiah 55:9 KJV states: “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” We’re dealing with an unprecedented worldwide crisis. A crisis is defined as a time…
A crisis is a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger. It is also a time when difficult but extremely important decisions must be made. This is such a time. The word crisis originates from the Latinized form of the Greek word, ‘krisis,’ which literally means the “turning point in a disease.” A crisis is…
Everyone has three basic questions that set the course of their life: What Am I? What Will I Become? How Will My Future be Determined? Great poets and philosophers have pondered these questions. We run into the future and wonder if we’re on the right track. We wonder what we are and what will we…
All of us have experienced guilt in our lives. It can be a very difficult mental and emotional experience. The Bible is clear about how to live without guilt. This teaching by David L. Johnston will help anyone overcome, and live without guilt.
Is there a difference when a person says, “I love ice-cream” and then in another setting says, “I Love You Sweetheart?” I hope so. Obviously there is a difference, a big difference. In our culture it seems that the words, “I love you,” can be very ambiguous. Men often to pretend to “give love” in…