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A hiking friend of ours, Mike Maples,  was telling us the story of a fella who met another man while on a flight and struck up a conversation with him. During the course of the conversation, the second man mentioned he was twice-widowed. The first man expressed his  condolences . The second man explained that his first wife had died after  having eaten poison mushrooms and that his second wife had died from a blow on the head  . The first man inquired as to how that happened and the second man said that occurred as a result of her refusing eat  some mushrooms

(Eph 4:12/The Living Bible) Gifts are God-given special abilities to do certain things best

(Eph 4:23/The Living Bible) Your attitudes and thoughts must always be constantly changing for the better

(Eph 4:29/ The Living Bible)  Say only what is good and helpful to those you are talking to, and what will give them a blessing

(Eph 4:30/ The Living Bible) Don't cause the Holy Spirit sorrow by the way you live

(Ray Stedman) Put  on the new self moment by moment, day by day

(Ray Stedman) When our Lord returns, His judgment will be based on what you did with the gifts He gave you

(Stanley) God blesses us so that we  might bless others

( Stanley) God's purpose for saving us is that we will bring Him glory

( Stanley) We are  most like Jesus when we are serving others

(Stanley) Our ungodly behavior breaks the heart of God

(Stanley) Unforgivenss lies at the root of many physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual problems we see today

(Stanley) We are going to be hurt. Everyone of us has been hurt, are hurting now, or are going to be hurt by somebody.That is not even the issue. The issue is how we respond to being hurt

(Stanley) Every day  we are conformed a little more to the image of Christ

(Stanley) Make a conscious moment-by-moment choice to depend on the Spirit's power to transform us into the likeness of Christ

(Swindoll) The power of pessimism creates  an atmosphere of wholesale negativism where nothing but the bad side of everything is emphasized

Do people see  their relationship with you aas a burden or a blessing?

(Our Daily Bread) Help stamp out pollution. Clean up your speech.

( Swindoll) The battle with the world is a battle within the mind                                                                                                            

(Swindoll) No person sudden falls

( Swindoll) Pay close attention to what you look at. Give greater thought to the consequences of sin rather then its pleasure