Food For Your Soul Unknown

In the Sound of Music, Julie Andrews sang about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens as a few of her favorite things. If you wrote a song like that, what would be at the top of your list of favorite things in this world-- That list could be a threat to your relationship with God, or it could strengthen your worship.

Philippians 4-9 says if you put what you've learned from the Word of God into practice, the God of peace will be with you. What would it look like for the God of peace to be with you in a greater way today than he was yesterday--

Yesterday I mentioned to someone that I used to be a pastor and he immediately asked me if I thought we were in the end times. People ask that a lot in times when there are a lot of wars and chaos and major catastrophes. But when Jesus preached about the end times, he said when there are wars and rumors of wars, don't be alarmed because that's not the end. Did you know Scripture points to certain activities of the Church-good activities-as being indicators of the nearness of the end-- In fact, we can even do things to make the end come sooner.

The Apostle Paul -and countless others- were willing to suffer torture and even sacrifice their lives to bring the truth of God's Word to you. The only reason you have it is because of what those people did. And we can understand that when it comes to the parts of Scripture that talk about how to become saved. It's worth it to sacrifice everything so that people could go to heaven instead of hell.

On a scale from one to ten, how edifying would you say your speech is most of the time-- Ephesians 4 calls us to speak only what builds people up. Today is part 4 in our little miniseries on what Proverbs teaches about how to handle conflicts.

Today is part 3 of our survey of what the book of Proverbs teaches about handling conflict. If you missed the first two, just dial up the last couple episodes. Today's podcast is an important one. It's about how to win the person instead of the argument.