Mentoring Matters
To know Christ and make Him known, sharing foundational tools to develop and maintain a Biblical Worldview from generation to generation.
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June 14, 2024 • 12 mins
“A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” Proverbs 18:24
Being a true friend that stays by your side can require some character development in the relationship. Sometimes words of correction are needed to remove blind spots in thinking. Sometimes special support is needed when your friend has made some wrong choices and is struggling to overcome guilt.
There are so...
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June 7, 2024 • 12 mins
“A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” Proverbs 18:24
As we build relationships, even from early childhood, we find that issues that draw us together are not always because of personality appeal. For a Christian, the hand of God is placing one another into positions that will further His plan for each life and how that plan will bring glory to Him, not just someo...
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May 30, 2024 • 12 mins
“Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30
When we choose to ignore the plain simple commands to obey, in love, what is taught in the Scriptures we grieve and can quench the Holy Spirit’s working in our lives. He will no longer support us in our poor choices but wants to restore us if we will REPENT and follow His leading.
Confess in agreement that we are out of ste...
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May 24, 2024 • 12 mins
“The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, but who can bear a broken spirit?” Proverbs 18:4
We probably do not give much thought that our spirit can be a tool for fighting sickness in the soul and body – an actual healing tool for getting well.
With that same thought we are told when our spirits are broken, and torn apart, focusing on the overwhelming circumstances and losses may contribute to the breaking down of our h...
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May 17, 2024 • 12 mins
Then He said to them ALL, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” Luke 9:23
On the surface, these words are not the most soothing to hear in wanting to grow as a Christian. We think we have a good standard of what our lives should look like, but the Lord knows the depths of hidden threats that will rob us of the best. Thank goodness we do not have to lean on our own...
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May 10, 2024 • 12 mins
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
In that one sentence, Jeremiah gives us a mini-view of why we are here on earth at this appointed time and place. God told Jeremiah I am responsible for your very life for a special purpose, he was set apart. The path Jeremiah was to walk included times of trials and pressure.
To prepare us ...
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May 3, 2024 • 12 mins
“With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.” Psalms 119: 10-11
How do you hide God’s word in the heart?
Romans 12 gives us a clue – Renew your mind in the mind of God – His word.
Why is it important to renew our minds? Because only there can we find our purpose in life. Only in God’s word do we find God’s design for...
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April 25, 2024 • 12 mins
“In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” I Thessalonians 5:18
In this upside-down world we are living in it can be difficult to give thanks. When our livelihood is threatened and our character trampled, finding the courage to give thanks is stifled by fear. When good is called evil and evil is called good, we seek to reason instead of resting in Him with thanksgiving.
The daily co...
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April 18, 2024 • 12 mins
“Count it all joy when you fall into various trials” James 1:2
Now, where is the logic and wisdom from rational thinking with this verse? Normally we avoid trials at all costs - not with all joy. We look for the quickest escape route to return to “normal.”
We fail to reflect on the wisdom of the Word that tells us many times that the JOY of the Lord is your strength, which is exactly what you need when in over your head with te...
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April 12, 2024 • 12 mins
“Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves.” 2 Corinthians 13:5
When we are fretful, full of anger, anxiety, withdrawn, isolated by choice, and no hunger for God’s Word, it is time to stop, examine and evaluate:
Are the facts based on the Bible or my opinions of what I think is true?
Are the facts being lived out, by faith, in trusting the Lord as my FINAL AUTHORITY, and is He the FOCUS of my Fait...
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April 4, 2024 • 12 mins
2 Peter 1:5-9 “Give all diligence add to your faith, virtue, to virtue knowledge and self-control.”
This passage in Peter guides us on the right road for living by faith and signs to keep us on the main highway of Godly living.
Somewhere, along the way, we can take a detour on the side path of emotions and feelings, thinking it would be a shortcut, and now are lost in finding our way back. Maybe your GPS, (God’s Protection Syst...
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March 28, 2024 • 12 mins
As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving” Colossians 2:6-7.
As Christians, faith is the basis for our walk with the Lord. It is important that we evaluate what the foundation of our faith is in; facts of the scriptures or the feelings of our flesh.
We can’t let emotions and experiences...
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March 21, 2024 • 12 mins
“When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work He did for Israel.” Judges 2:10
Bridges connect us with where we have been and where we are going. This is true in the physical world, so it is true in the spiritual eternal world. Without bridges connecting the history of the past, we do not know how to learn from the past and repeat the blund...
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March 15, 2024 • 12 mins
“The days are coming when I will send a famine in the land, not of bread, nor thirst of water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.” Amos 8:11
Why would God want to make hearing the Word a famine?
Perhaps we no longer desire TRUTH as spiritual food, or we only want “food” that satisfies, tastes good, and comforts us without nourishing and healing.
Today, information alone is being called truth, but who can trust the truth tha...
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March 7, 2024 • 12 mins
“But we Christians have no veil over our faces; we can be mirrors that brightly reflect the glory of the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 3:18
If we want to check our growth in Christian living through practical means, we can look at our personality, temperament, actions, and attitudes. Do they reflect in a mirror the image of who God says He is?
Can a person say there is something different about us? Can they see Christ “in us?"
As the S...
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March 1, 2024 • 12 mins
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28
To labor and be heavy burdened are two descriptions of our conditions that most are facing in one area or another. This can be applied to the physical, emotional, and soul – influencing our spirits.
Culture is telling us to have third-party encounters with one another through some device that offers opinions and information for man-ma...
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February 22, 2024 • 12 mins
“Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test Yourselves.” 1 Corinthians 13:5
We have an age-old problem – a portion of the Christian community lacks the discipline to look at our lives with discernment.
We want to be given the Truth in ways that do not cause upset to our current way of thinking. If that be the case, then how do we “gear up” to grow in grace and knowledge? How do we learn to love?
As we examine ou...
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February 16, 2024 • 12 mins
“Exercise yourself toward godliness” 1 Timothy 4:7-10
Godliness can begin with physically taking care of the body through exercise. Our bodies are temporal temples and exercise does require discipline, training, being faithful, and even requires some sweat.
Those same qualities are also needed in knowing and understanding the wisdom the Lord Jesus taught for living a life of godliness.
Let’s compare how the short-term examples...
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February 9, 2024 • 12 mins
“Judge not that you be not judged” Matthew 7:1
Word matter and the way you use them can change a whole conversation. We can never “judge” the person for condemnation, that belongs to God alone.
We are commanded to discern a person’s behavior, words, actions. We are exhorted to discern and deal with obvious sinful lifestyles.
Today’s conversation will help decipher when to discern, but not Judge.
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February 1, 2024 • 12 mins
“Test all things; hold fast what is good.” 1 Thessalonians 2:21
This mandate is in a list of requirements for being set apart to discern the current “teaching” of the day. They were to discern what was written and spoken was the truth or popular opinion, just words of men.
We still battle that same problem today with volumes of information coming out each day to “better ourselves” but may not be according to Scripture. Many ...
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