http://refugeinchrist.com providing refuge and support from the bible Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:13:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brethren. Luke 22:32- Sin can make our faith to fail, especially when we never expect that we can fall into such a sin; this may eventually lead to backsliding. This ... http://refugeinchrist.com/?p=36 HOPE Hope is a word not often used in the Christian faith like its counterparts, Love and Faith. Meanwhile the Christian faith is also centered on hope. We may need to look at ‘hope’ here with the eyes of perseverance. Pernam Percy Paul sang a song ... http://refugeinchrist.com/?p=35 When you use excuses, you give up your power to change and improve. You can fall down many times, but you won't be a failure until you say that someone else pushed you. John Mason. http://refugeinchrist.com/?p=33 There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh on him can have no hope from them afterwards; for they will dissipate, lost, and perished in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.    ... http://refugeinchrist.com/?p=32 Look at the stone cutter, hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that ... http://refugeinchrist.com/?p=31 excellence can be attained if you....... Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, Excpect more than others think is possible. http://refugeinchrist.com/?p=29 Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. http://refugeinchrist.com/?p=30 The question is often asked, who is a youth? At times men of 50 still want themselves to be categorized as youth. If men of 50 are youths, then when will they be elders? However, it doesn't matter whether you call yourself a youth or an elder, what matters is ... http://refugeinchrist.com/?p=28 Evangelism at the work place may be the most difficult, yet the fastest way of reaching out to your colleagues, superiors and subordinates. It is difficult because you may not want to offend your boss, or you may not want to be seen as a fanatic; or you ... http://refugeinchrist.com/?p=27 Galatians 5:16 - 26 The bible makes us understand that fresh water and salt water cannot flow from the same spring James 3:11, so also would not the fruit of the Spirit and the fruit of the flesh co-habit. We are either living by the Spirit or by the flesh. http://refugeinchrist.com/?p=26