Basic Life Principles

Timeless truths from God’s Word for our lives and relationships

Throughout the pages of Scripture, principles are contained that provide guidance for our personal lives and relationships. These principles touch on every relational sphere of life, whether it be marriage, family, business, church, or government. All relationships encounter conflict at some point, and if this conflict is not resolved, psychological, spiritual, and even physical damage can result. But when we discover that our conflicts are connected to violations of God’s principles, and we learn to adhere to these principles through the power of the Holy Spirit, a resolution can be experienced that produces peace in our daily interactions. When we learn to see and respond to life’s challenges from God’s viewpoint, and choose His grace over our natural inclination, everything changes!

Design

How and why God made me

Discovering God’s intricate handiwork in my physical aspects and the circumstances into which I was born, and learning to lay aside culture’s facade of the “ideal” and accept God’s ultimate purpose for my life

Going Deeper: Exploring Design

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Authority

Our response to God-ordained leadership

Understanding how to honor the role God has given parents, church leaders, government and other authorities, and learning how to respond when those above me violate God’s will

Going Deeper: Exploring Authority

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Responsibility

Cleansing the conscience

Realizing that I will, one day, answer to God for my every thought, word, and action, and doing what is necessary to make amends with those whom I have offended

Going Deeper: Exploring The Conscience

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Suffering

Responding to the hurts inflicted upon me

Seeing how reaction to offenses produces fuel, not resolution, for ongoing detriment, and discovering how to transform bitterness into genuine forgiveness

Going Deeper: Bitterness & Forgiveness

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Ownership

Properly handling material possessions

Acknowledging that everything I am and have comes from the Lord, and learning how to overcome the anger that commonly results when others tamper with my temporal possessions

Going Deeper: Exploring Ownership

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Freedom

Escaping the bondage of moral impurity

Discovering how “major” entanglements in sin begin with little compromises, choices, and thought patterns, and learning how to transfer the ground of my soul from Satan’s deadly dictates to Christ’s life-giving reign

Going Deeper: Exploring Freedom

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Success

How to fulfill our God-given purpose

Understanding that Biblical “success” is defined by God’s ultimate plan, not my temporal attainments, and learning that reaching it requires God’s Word conquering me from the inside out

Going Deeper: Exploring Meditation

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