Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 21—Christ Deals With Minds Christ’s Teaching to Be a Guide—Christ’s teaching, like His sympathies, embraced the world. Never can there be a circumstance of life, a crisis in human experience, which has not been anticipated in His teaching and for which its principles have not a lesson. The Prince ofContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Be as the dead: Deaf and mute

When the wicked (sinners—they choosing to hold on to, remain in sin) form those weapons, and lie, and rise against us speaking lies (includes exaggerations, changing, adding, or substituting the words spoken of another, etcetera): Be as a dead man who doesn’t hear nothing. Be as the deaf man who hears nothing. Be as theContinue reading “Be as the dead: Deaf and mute”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 20—The Home Atmosphere (Part 3) The Influence of Parental Defects—It seems perfectly natural for some men to be morose, selfish, exacting, and overbearing. They have never learned the lesson of self-control and will not restrain their unreasonable feelings, let the consequences be what they may. Such men will be repaidContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Know who you are—who you really belong to, serve

Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. There is a distinct difference between sinners (the wicked, they who choose to remain sinning), and they who Elohim refers to as the righteous, His saints, the meek, the upright, the just, the redeemed, etcetera. His promised blessings are to His righteous—they who live His righteousness, the upright, His saints.Continue reading “Know who you are—who you really belong to, serve”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 20—The Home Atmosphere (Part 2) Uplifting of Humanity Begins in Home—The restoration and uplifting of humanity begins in the home. The work of parents underlies every other. Society is composed of families and is what the heads of families make it. Out of the heart are “the issues of life”Continue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 20—The Home Atmosphere (Part 1) Home Influences Affect Society—The heart of the community, of the church, and of the nation is the household. The well-being of society, the success of the church, the prosperity of the nation, depend upon home influences.—The Ministry of Healing, 349 (1905).  Effective Agencies for FormationContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”