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Which Comes First, Identity or Behavior?
I am not perfect, and I will struggle with the “old Jim,” who was and is influenced by American culture, narratives and values. But the key is that identity comes before behavior. We almost always do ... -
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Change your Name or your Behavior
There is a story—likely apocryphal—of Alexander the Great discovering a soldier asleep at his post, a grave offense. When the guard was brought before him, the king asked his name. “Alexander,” the yo... -
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Defining Habits
The definition of the word habit, according to Merriam-Webster, is “a usual way of behaving: something that a person does often in a regular and repeated way.” In the American Journal of Psychology it... -
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Who Determines Your Behavior?
Some years ago, the syndicated newspaper columnist Sidney J. Harris shared an interesting anecdote from one of his friends. Each evening, this friend would stop at the same newsstand to buy a newspape... -
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Culture shapes the way we order our life, interpret our experiences, and evaluate the behavior of other people. -
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One of the most enduring lessons of social psychology is that behavior change often precedes changes in attitude and feelings. -
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The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. -
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What this means is that prayer can be learned only in the vocabulary and grammar of personal relationship: Father! Friend! It can never be a matter of getting the right words in the right order. It ca... -
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Defining Kindness
What is kindness, then? What sort of behavior do we have in mind when we say that someone has been kind to us or to others? I think the essence of kindness is being thoughtful for others more than for... -
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Electrical Fires and Addressing Sin at the Source
One afternoon, I was playing with my son in our living room when I suddenly smelled something burning. I stood up and walked around, nose high in the air, sniffing furiously. My wife smelled it too, s... -
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Spiritual Food Belongs in the Heart
Spiritual nourishment cannot be seen purely in our outward behavior. The process of sanctification is a deeply internal process. Outside growth is merely a symptom, and acting better does not mean our... -
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Justified?
There is a television show that has one of those beginnings that stick with you long after you’ve seen it. And it starts like this…A man, dressed like a cowboy enters an ultra sleek Miami club, lookin... -
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We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God. -
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Patience is not simply the ability to wait, it’s how we behave while we are waiting. -
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"The Batman Effect" The Power of Identity
A group of researchers sought to study the nuances of self-control. They conducted a study with a few dozen kindergarten students and gave them a painfully boring, repetitive task designed to test how... -
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The question for each parable is: How did Jesus seek to change attitudes and behaviors with this parable? -
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Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will present... -
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The Power of Four: Spiritual Transformation from Reading Scripture
Does reading the Bible really change us? Does it have the ability, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to shape and form our characters? That's what The Center for Bible Engagement wanted to fin... -
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Behavior modification that’s not empowered by God’s heart-changing grace is self-righteousness, as repugnant to God as the worst sins people gossip about. -
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Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue. -
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Finding the Right “Fit”: Clothing Ourselves with Christ-Like Behavior
I am among the minority of people who are hardwired (genetic science now demonstrates this) to loathe cilantro. I can’t stand it. I call it the adolescent of herbs: notice me, notice me, NOTICE ME! To... -
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Coming to Grips with the Reality of Sin
The psychotherapist M. Scott Peck spent many years of his practice as an agnostic. He, along with thousands upon thousands of his colleagues were taught that evil was a social construct, and therefore... -
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Consider your Habits, They Make up 40% of Your Life
A 2014 study by Wendy Wood found that approximately 40% of people’s daily activities are performed out of habit. According to Wood, “an important characteristic of a habit is that it’s automatic…We fi... -
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Spiritual Formation: Essential to Human Existence
In their excellent book, Invitation to a Journey , M. Robert Mulholland and Ruth Haley Barton describe the foundation of life as being spiritual in nature. This means we are constantly be “form... -
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Self-Discipline Transforms our Motivations
George Garrett, a novelist and amateur boxer wrote about a transformation that often takes place for fighters who stick with the sport. Throughout their journey to boxing excellence, in which they mus... -
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The Inuit and the Wolf
In the vast, frozen wilderness of the Arctic, an Inuit hunter used a clever technique to trap a wolf. He took a sharp knife and carefully coated its blade with layers of animal blood, letting each lay... -
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The goal of our convictions is to guide our own conduct so that it is pleasing to Jesus, not to guide the conduct of others. -
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room. -
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The Pride of the Titanic
I know most of us have probably heard enough stories about the Titanic, but it does stand as an amazing monument to the famous saying, slightly altered, “pride goes before the fall/destruction.” (Prov... -
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Pushed to the Brink of Destruction
Psychiatrist James Knight describes in graphic detail the experience that members of Alcoholics Anonymous experience: These persons have had their lives laid bare and pushed to the brink of destructi...
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- Sabbath (49)
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- The Spiritual Life (18)
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- Taking A Leap Of Faith (10)
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- Truth (95)
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- The Way (10)
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- Wrestling with God (10)
Top_level_categories by Reference
Genesis
Exodus
- Exod 1 (4)
- Exod 2 (4)
- Exod 3 (28)
- Exod 4 (3)
- Exod 5 (1)
- Exod 6 (2)
- Exod 8 (1)
- Exod 12 (4)
- Exod 13 (7)
- Exod 14 (7)
- Exod 15 (4)
- Exod 16 (12)
- Exod 17 (2)
- Exod 18 (2)
- Exod 19 (7)
- Exod 20 (17)
- Exod 22 (1)
- Exod 23 (2)
- Exod 24 (2)
- Exod 25 (2)
- Exod 26 (1)
- Exod 27 (1)
- Exod 30 (2)
- Exod 32 (13)
- Exod 33 (12)
- Exod 34 (6)
- Exod 35 (2)
- Exod 40 (1)
Leviticus
Deuteronomy
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Esther
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (26)
- Ps 2 (2)
- Ps 3 (1)
- Ps 4 (6)
- Ps 5 (11)
- Ps 6 (5)
- Ps 7 (2)
- Ps 8 (22)
- Ps 9 (10)
- Ps 10 (3)
- Ps 11 (1)
- Ps 12 (2)
- Ps 13 (3)
- Ps 14 (3)
- Ps 15 (2)
- Ps 16 (17)
- Ps 17 (1)
- Ps 18 (13)
- Ps 19 (33)
- Ps 20 (4)
- Ps 22 (21)
- Ps 23 (73)
- Ps 24 (24)
- Ps 25 (26)
- Ps 27 (56)
- Ps 28 (3)
- Ps 29 (6)
- Ps 30 (18)
- Ps 31 (5)
- Ps 32 (35)
- Ps 33 (16)
- Ps 34 (103)
- Ps 35 (1)
- Ps 36 (8)
- Ps 37 (38)
- Ps 38 (2)
- Ps 39 (4)
- Ps 40 (8)
- Ps 41 (2)
- Ps 42 (31)
- Ps 43 (1)
- Ps 44 (1)
- Ps 45 (2)
- Ps 46 (53)
- Ps 47 (3)
- Ps 50 (4)
- Ps 51 (109)
- Ps 52 (2)
- Ps 54 (2)
- Ps 55 (8)
- Ps 56 (8)
- Ps 57 (5)
- Ps 59 (1)
- Ps 60 (1)
- Ps 61 (3)
- Ps 62 (13)
- Ps 63 (10)
- Ps 65 (9)
- Ps 66 (7)
- Ps 67 (2)
- Ps 68 (4)
- Ps 69 (1)
- Ps 70 (1)
- Ps 71 (7)
- Ps 72 (5)
- Ps 73 (9)
- Ps 77 (8)
- Ps 78 (6)
- Ps 79 (1)
- Ps 80 (2)
- Ps 82 (12)
- Ps 84 (6)
- Ps 85 (13)
- Ps 86 (13)
- Ps 88 (4)
- Ps 89 (3)
- Ps 90 (17)
- Ps 91 (10)
- Ps 92 (3)
- Ps 94 (3)
- Ps 95 (11)
- Ps 96 (11)
- Ps 98 (6)
- Ps 99 (1)
- Ps 100 (20)
- Ps 102 (1)
- Ps 103 (70)
- Ps 104 (14)
- Ps 105 (2)
- Ps 106 (3)
- Ps 107 (5)
- Ps 111 (5)
- Ps 112 (3)
- Ps 113 (3)
- Ps 115 (4)
- Ps 116 (6)
- Ps 117 (2)
- Ps 118 (12)
- Ps 119 (75)
- Ps 121 (22)
- Ps 122 (2)
- Ps 124 (2)
- Ps 125 (1)
- Ps 126 (7)
- Ps 127 (8)
- Ps 128 (3)
- Ps 130 (16)
- Ps 131 (3)
- Ps 133 (13)
- Ps 135 (3)
- Ps 136 (14)
- Ps 137 (2)
- Ps 138 (6)
- Ps 139 (63)
- Ps 142 (3)
- Ps 143 (2)
- Ps 144 (1)
- Ps 145 (19)
- Ps 146 (13)
- Ps 147 (43)
- Ps 148 (2)
- Ps 149 (1)
- Ps 150 (5)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
- Prov 2 (6)
- Prov 3 (112)
- Prov 4 (15)
- Prov 5 (1)
- Prov 6 (7)
- Prov 8 (2)
- Prov 9 (2)
- Prov 10 (5)
- Prov 11 (23)
- Prov 12 (10)
- Prov 13 (7)
- Prov 14 (8)
- Prov 15 (19)
- Prov 16 (34)
- Prov 17 (18)
- Prov 18 (15)
- Prov 19 (23)
- Prov 20 (6)
- Prov 21 (10)
- Prov 22 (23)
- Prov 23 (3)
- Prov 24 (8)
- Prov 25 (5)
- Prov 26 (6)
- Prov 27 (11)
- Prov 28 (20)
- Prov 29 (9)
- Prov 30 (3)
- Prov 31 (16)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (60)
- Isa 2 (12)
- Isa 4 (1)
- Isa 5 (5)
- Isa 6 (44)
- Isa 7 (7)
- Isa 9 (41)
- Isa 11 (10)
- Isa 12 (3)
- Isa 14 (1)
- Isa 15 (1)
- Isa 16 (1)
- Isa 25 (8)
- Isa 26 (22)
- Isa 28 (3)
- Isa 29 (7)
- Isa 30 (32)
- Isa 32 (3)
- Isa 33 (3)
- Isa 35 (6)
- Isa 40 (117)
- Isa 41 (64)
- Isa 42 (16)
- Isa 43 (56)
- Isa 44 (4)
- Isa 45 (8)
- Isa 46 (2)
- Isa 48 (6)
- Isa 49 (12)
- Isa 50 (3)
- Isa 51 (3)
- Isa 52 (3)
- Isa 53 (76)
- Isa 54 (5)
- Isa 55 (85)
- Isa 56 (4)
- Isa 57 (17)
- Isa 58 (38)
- Isa 59 (2)
- Isa 60 (22)
- Isa 61 (49)
- Isa 62 (3)
- Isa 64 (20)
- Isa 65 (9)
- Isa 66 (16)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Joel
Obadiah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Matthew
- Matt 1 (20)
- Matt 2 (27)
- Matt 3 (19)
- Matt 4 (60)
- Matt 5 (212)
- Matt 6 (149)
- Matt 7 (60)
- Matt 8 (18)
- Matt 9 (35)
- Matt 10 (28)
- Matt 11 (92)
- Matt 12 (18)
- Matt 13 (52)
- Matt 14 (25)
- Matt 15 (10)
- Matt 16 (42)
- Matt 17 (23)
- Matt 18 (59)
- Matt 19 (33)
- Matt 20 (23)
- Matt 21 (24)
- Matt 22 (43)
- Matt 23 (46)
- Matt 24 (15)
- Matt 25 (81)
- Matt 26 (23)
- Matt 27 (8)
- Matt 28 (67)