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Applying God’s Word in Counseling

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Are you someone who desires to communicate the Word of God to distraught people who have lost their way? If so, according to Hebrews 4:12 you have the right tool. “The Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

Many people are confused and mixed up. The Bible is the only true mirror that can help a person unscramble their mixed up thinking. However, the Bible is a difficult book to face for the person who is on the defensive. And so the real question is: Does this person want to change?
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Leadership Communication

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Leadership and management involve making up your mind what you want people to do. Telling them what their job is. Telling them what constitutes satisfactory performance. Checking to see that it’s done. Recognizing quality work. Correcting poor work. Getting rid of the ones who don’t do it. Sometimes those tasks can be difficult, but they are required of leaders.
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Managing People Effectively

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Are you heading into a project, and wondering how to manage it? It can be simple if you follow a few basic management principles. These principles involve scanning the horizon to find the right people, and taking the trouble to see to it that there’s training available for them. Then you must take a chance as they apply their minds to your business.
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Helping Kids Live Within Limits

Monday, April 12th, 2010

I want to remind you that raising children is a twenty year process. Twenty years. So those of you with preschool children need to remember that you have a ways to go! So relax, take it easy, there isn’t any one day that makes a whole lot of difference, not in the perspective of twenty years.

In Isaiah 53:6 we read, “All we like sheep have gone astray.” One could think of this verse as the theme for family life. If parents go ”astray”, the children will usually follow. It’s important to recognize the responsibility you have in raising your children.
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Expect Respect from Your Children

Friday, April 9th, 2010

The foundation upon which you’re going to build an effective family life is this: You expect your children to honor you. Now how does that happen? That happens when you and your partner sit down and develop guidelines, limits, and rules that both of you are prepared to carry out, and in your considered judgment, are in the best interests of your children.
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