“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…
The words of the song are true, “Into each life some rain must fall, some tears must fall… but not too much.” The sun needs to shine. God wants you cheerful. This teaching presents twelve steps you can follow to assure that you will live in the near constant condition of joy. How important is…
What do you do when you are put down? Or hated? Or feel heart pains? Or face fear? Or feel weak? Or feel like running away? What do you do when you have a “Judas” in your life, a traitor, or a disloyal friend? The secrets to handling all of the above with peace and…
There are contaminations of all kinds; chemical, biological, environmental, and moral. Contaminants, by definition, are the presence and influence of unwanted constituents. We face a clear and present danger of world-wide contaminations. However, we also face unclear and present dangers of generation-wide contaminations as well. In this teaching the unclear and present dangers will become…