Category: Advice
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Some Things You Have to Pass On (Forego).
I’m, Dr. Bob and for just a Mentoring Minute, I want to tell you about something that happened in the midst of a conversation with my friend Pastor Jonathan Cook. As we were talking, I said something that profoundly struck both of us. At that moment, we stopped the conversation and both wrote it in…
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Requirements for Righteous Living
I’d like to share some thoughts with you about the knowledge required for righteous living. This begins with the primary requirement of being saved and then, committed to serving Christ. There ought to be many indications of this in the person who loves and serves Him, but I want to focus on the one that
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Consumed with Thanksgiving
For just a Mentoring Minute, I want to talk about having a voice of thanksgiving. There will be times when we have to step out in faith with the powerful weapon of thanksgiving spilling off our lips. For me, such a time came in 1994, when I was preaching on the street in an undesirable…
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Remind Yourself that You Love the Scriptures.
While doing my daily Bible reading, I often feel weary and less interested than I should have been. So I do something to energize myself. It’s become a habit when my flesh doesn’t want to complete the day’s reading. I tell myself how much I love the Scriptures. I even say it out loud a…
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Nobody Escapes the Battles.
Nobody escapes the battles that come with life. Often, they will be battles against difficult, or even malevolent forces. When this happens, these forces, which are demonic in nature, will be cunning and relentless. Though they may leave us alone for a season,
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“You’re Not Being Fair!”
We have all said the words, “You’re not being fair!” I was watching a TV sports program and one of the two commentators interrupted the guest speaker before the guy was done speaking. The other commentator said, “Hey, you’re not being fair!” I laughed at the first commentator’s reply to this.
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Asking the Right Questions – Sarah Mueller
Sarah Mueller is Dr. Abramson’s daughter. Here’s her Mentoring Minute: My husband and I like to joke around about what our neighbors might think of us. Do they think we are strange for having 4 kids (yes, really – 4 boys!) ? Do they think we are over-protective because we homeschool? Do they automatically think…
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Everyone Needs a “Worries Box.”
I was talking with a young man who I have mentored as he prepares to become a pastor. The subject came up of anxiety or worry over the decisions and choices he will have to make along the way to his successes. I told him that through the years I have developed my own “Worries…
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The Lie of Shame
Every one of us has experienced feelings of shame. It’s is a condition in which we feel dirty and polluted. Shame a consequence of our fallen human condition. It can infect us because
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Do What You Believe In. Believe In What You Do.
I was talking with my wife Nancy about a woman on a TV quiz show who, on the final question of the contest, chose to deliberately tie another contestant when she could have won. Nancy and I agreed that, within the woman’s heart, she probably believed in giving grace to others, rather than winning at…
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