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1. Fumigate Toxic Friends From Your Life

... ents just to follow her friend. She ignored her mother and father's words of caution but, now in retrospect, she realizes how the friendship trained her to be dangerously complaisant. "Not until many yea ...

Created on 21 November 2018

2. How to Tell if Your Friendship Has Turned Toxic ...

... all emotional energy. But sometimes we have toxic friendships, and we're not even aware they are toxic. But slowly over time, it takes its toll. We grow insecure and critical ... we sometimes even tur ...

Created on 30 August 2018

3. How You Can Tell If Your Friendship Is Healthy ...

What is your inner circle of friends like? Are you in healthy friendships with the ones closest to you? Are those who speak most into your life challenging you to be a better person? Do those with whom ...

Created on 22 August 2018

4. Too Many Christian Men Neglect This Powerful Spiritual-Growth Tool

Herb Bloomquist was in good spirits the morning of March 8, 2015. As the executive director of Shamineau Ministries, which runs a Christian camp and outfitter ministry with two locations in Minnesota, ...

Created on 08 August 2018

5. 6 Ways to Become a Better Friend

... their hearts entirely to avoid being hurt again. Even though we are called to model the love of God for the world to see, we are wounded and cold. Recently the Holy Spirit drew me to study the friendship ...

Created on 10 July 2018

6. Do You Want Deeper Friendships? Adjust Your Attitude ...

... has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13). Real friendship is always sacrificial. We tend to want friendship on our terms; we want to be loved and encouraged and ...

Created on 05 July 2018

7. How the Prophetic Can Help You Be a Better Friend

... lly natural lives, then why would our friendships be any different? Today I want to encourage you to take your friendships, whether that be with your spouse, your best friends, your children or your cowork ...

Created on 13 February 2018

8. Kanye West's Pentecostal Pastor Beautifully Tells Church Why It Matters to Befriend Sinners

Rich Wilkerson Jr. is the pastor of VOUS Church in Miami, Florida, but many know him best as the pastor who married Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Some have used that as a smear against him. But Wilkerson ...

Created on 06 February 2018

9. How to Make the Holy Spirit Your Closest Friend

... friendly and, and you'll have friends. The next line in that verse takes it deeper: "and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother." I love my natural family and my church family. I appreciate my  ...

Created on 26 January 2018

10. What Christians Need to Learn From Non-Christians

What have you learned from your non-Christian friends recently? If your answer is nothing—or that you don't have non-Christian friends—then your perspective may be too limited to be an effective evangelist. ...

Created on 25 January 2018

11. 4 Types of Friends Who Will Help You Walk Through Your Single Years

... ds These are by far the easiest friendships to develop. These are the people who go to the same school, church, or job, or they live in the same neighborhood. You see them. These seem to be the friends t ...

Created on 03 January 2018

12. Why You Might Not Be as Mature a Friend as You Think

... It feels like they don't care. Many days or weeks go by, and you are getting really hurt over this. If you don't initiate back, you are concerned that the relationship may be over and worst of all, the friendsh ...

Created on 13 December 2017

13. How God Supernaturally Met This Woman's Deep Need

... eived: Stoning for being engaged and found pregnant. Expelled from the community forever. Divorce by Joseph, who had a right to divorce her. The gift of friendship that God provided Miriam was immense. ...

Created on 04 December 2017

14. 5 Deep Questions to Discern if Your Friends Are Good for You

Chaplain Ronnie Melancon said, "Show me your friends and I'll show you your future." As a believer, I think everyone deserves to be loved and cared for. In fact, Jesus said that loving the unlovely is ...

Created on 04 December 2017

15. Your Secret Weapon to Overcome Devastating Division

"That they all may be one, as You Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me" (John 17:21). Working with others can often be a challenge. ...

Created on 28 November 2017

16. 5 Iron-Sharpening Elements of a Proverbs 27:17 Friendship ...

According to Facebook, I have more than a thousand friends. Some of them I've never met in person. Many are acquaintances. Some are closer friends. Then there are the friendships that go deeper. These ar ...

Created on 16 November 2017

17. The Spirit-Filled Power of Partnership in Prayer

Have you ever thought of tithing your prayer life by spending part of your prayer time praying for others? A friend of mine decided to try praying for three other people every time she sent God a request ...

Created on 11 October 2017

18. Caring Questions to Ask Your Friends

The other day, I was sitting on the back deck with my daughter Keri, talking about friendship. Keri is an amazing friend to others, so it's no surprise that she has many friends. One of the qualities tha ...

Created on 25 September 2017

19. What the Book of Revelation Teaches You About Friendship With God ...

... s, but Jesus changed institutions by changing men." For this reason, it is important to understand what the Lord is doing. Even more important is to understand why. This is where we grow into true friends ...

Created on 22 September 2017

20. Do Your Friends Call You Up Higher?

... e real message today is to consider the fellowship of people who are equally yoked. Some folks have a very poor definition of friendship. "A true friend accepts me as I am." That doesn't seem like muc ...

Created on 23 August 2017