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Mutual conversation

October 26, 2020 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

Good talk is fun!  Put simply: It involves your mouth voicing words with your brain full on, your heart tuned to “nice“, and another talker involved – some listening ear understanding you, involved mutually in the conversation. If there is no understanding – then there is no communication.  If it’s not mutual, then there is […]

Filed Under: Christian Life, Counseling and Exhorting, Forgiveness Tagged With: arrogance, assumption, controlling, conversation, disregard, dominator, ego, examine, forgiveness, love, self-centered, selfish, sense of superiority, spirit of gentleness, strife, talk, talk style, tempted

Trophimus I left sick at Miletus

August 10, 2020 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

“Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.” – 2 Timothy 4:20 Sometimes we get sick.  And sometimes prayer, as earnest as you can be, leaves us not-healed. Sick Trophimus got left behind by the Apostle Paul, not because God was unable to heal him, not because God was punishing Trophimus for some sin, nor because nobody […]

Filed Under: Christian Life, Counseling and Exhorting Tagged With: healing, sickness

When I find myself in times of trouble, I turn to Jesus

June 23, 2020 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

Just as His eye is on the sparrow, my God watches over me. (Luke 12:7) In times of trouble, such as with today’s events, Jesus is our answer. “Why worry, when you can pray.” Our “hope and confident expectation” at all times should be “committed and focused” on Jesus – in all that we are, […]

Filed Under: Christian Life, Counseling and Exhorting, Jesus the Christ, Prayer Tagged With: Jesus, pray, worry

Behaving Stupidly

August 16, 2019 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

Satan had it. Israel had it.  Uzziah had it.   Peter warned against it.   Arrogance and pride.  So easy to see in others.  So difficult to see in myself: pride in one’s self   It seems to be one of those sins “that goes before you…” announcing itself to others (before you even arrive!).  […]

Filed Under: Christian Life, Counseling and Exhorting Tagged With: 1 Timothy 3:6, arrogance, behave, behavior, conceit, egocentric, fall into, in Christ, pride, Satan, stupid

Actually act on what you know

April 12, 2018 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

“…act upon the knowledge of faith….”  – Francis Schaeffer in his book, True Spirituality.  Quoted here by Andrée Seu Peterson in her World Magazine article (in 4th paragraph):  The power of now …Call forth what’s yours with no double-mindedness.  *Featured 2016 photo is Al-Basha, a Christian in Syria who acted on his beliefs – and […]

Filed Under: Christian Life, Counseling and Exhorting, Faith Tagged With: act, deeds, double-mindedness, stepping stone, talk, thinking

Befuddled and Besmirched

March 25, 2018 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

People talkin’ ’bout you?  Feeling besmirched? Feeling befuddled?  Stumbling like a drunk through your day?  Getting to the next thing all you can seem to handle?  What’s next?  Demands and to-do’s piled-up? …no contentment?  Is “happy” gone? besmirched:  1) damage the reputation of (someone or something) in the opinion of others. 2) make (something) dirty […]

Filed Under: Christian Life, Counseling and Exhorting Tagged With: befuddled, besmirched, gossip, habits, love

Stand Strong

March 6, 2018 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

I hate to fail.  Obviously.  Who set’s out to fail?!  The same with failing God – sinning.  I hate to sin. I don’t consciously set-out to sin, like: “Okay, right now I’m going to go get angry at that… and yell and….” “Okay, this is it.  It’s time for me to really hate on Joe […]

Filed Under: Christian Life, Counseling and Exhorting, Spiritual Warfare Tagged With: adversities, Ephesians 6:10-17, soar, stamina, stand strong

Finding Perfect Peace

December 23, 2017 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

You’ve maybe seen this bumper sticker? I saw it drive by just this week: “Know God, know peace. No God, no peace.” Are you struggling with something and finding no peace?  Go to the Lord in prayer.  There’s a whole lot’a stuff that can keep us struggling!  Life throws curve balls.  And we’re not all […]

Filed Under: Christian Life, Counseling and Exhorting, Prayer Tagged With: focus, Isaiah 26:3, peace, trust

Who Do You Believe?

July 1, 2017 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

The World – or – God Your Way – or – God’s Way (A) Belief in God’s creation – versus – (B) Belief in Common worldviews 1. Creation The World: God did not create me.   God does not have a plan for my life.  So I can create myself my own way.  God:  God did create […]

Filed Under: Bible: The Bible Says, Christian Life, Counseling and Exhorting Tagged With: abortion, creation, gender, homosexuality, sex

Conversations With God

November 18, 2016 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

Self-talk can be God-talk.  All that self-talk we all engage our minds in throughout the day?  “Talk it” to God. You can direct all your self-talk to God as prayer.  You can have intimate conversations with God in the privacy of your inner self.  That is just so totally awesome! pray without ceasing… –1 Thessalonians […]

Filed Under: Counseling and Exhorting, Prayer Tagged With: conversation, conversing, God-talk, intimate, prayer, self-talk, sharing

What We Are To Be

May 19, 2016 by Keith Swift

Romans 12 is one of those sections of the Bible that tell a complete story – all in one passage.  Paul presents a thorough explanation of what God is expecting of those who choose to follow Him. This passage, like many, goes along with the message of James, which says we’ve got to back-up our […]

Filed Under: Bible: New Testament, Christian Life, Counseling and Exhorting Tagged With: Romans

The Good Fight

March 23, 2016 by Keith Swift

The Good Fight – J.C. Ryle Let us settle it in our minds that the Christian fight is a good fight – really good, truly good, emphatically good. We see only part of it yet. We see the struggle, but not the reward; we see the cross, but not the crown. We see a few […]

Filed Under: Counseling and Exhorting, Poetry, Sayings, and Words Tagged With: appearances, endure, fight, hand of God, judge, Kingdom of God, reward, struggle, warfare

Actually Try To Do The Deed

March 23, 2016 by admin

President Theodore Roosevelt wrote this encouraging speech.  Apt for today – in all our arenas of life, eh? “It’s not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better.   The credit belongs to the man who is actually […]

Filed Under: Counseling and Exhorting, Poetry, Sayings, and Words Tagged With: credit, critic, dare, defeat, doer, failure, President Theodore Roosevelt, victory

Catch-up With Life!

September 19, 2015 by Keith Swift

Every once in awhile I take a step back.  I stop.  Take a fresh look at things.  Re-think things.  Where am I at now?  What am I doing now?  Where have I bean?  What’s new?  What is not working well for me?  Am I “missing the boat” somewhere?  What changes might be good to make…. […]

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Looking at Others

June 5, 2015 by Keith Swift

What do you think of others? Do you size-them-up: know their sins and think less of them, or think they are great because you like how they look or like how much they have? The Apostle Paul gives us a great insight into how we should observe others, how we should think of others. 15 Christ […]

Filed Under: Counseling and Exhorting, Devotionals Tagged With: bad, condemn, daily walk, good, judge, looking, love, put-down, size-them-up

Let God Damn – Not You

July 28, 2014 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

The first place to start teaching about any sin is with kindness, love, and a non-condemning attitude… sort of as close to Jesus’ way as possible, like when he confronted the adulterer and the crowd condemning her. The first thing Jesus did was get the harshness off the sinner – by getting rid of the […]

Filed Under: Counseling and Exhorting Tagged With: condemner, damn, God, harshness, judge, stop

Handy Little Chart

May 5, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

HANDY LITTLE CHART – GOD HAS A POSITIVE ANSWER:   YOU SAY GOD SAYS BIBLE VERSES You say: ‘It’s impossible’ God says: All things are possible ( Luke 18:27) You say: ‘I’m too tired’ God says: I will give you rest ( Matthew 11:28-30) You say: ‘Nobody really loves me’ God says: I love you […]

Filed Under: Bible: The Bible Says, Counseling and Exhorting Tagged With: chart, counseling

Pasadena Declaration

June 11, 2009 by admin Leave a Comment

The Pasadena Declaration -Written by the Fraternidad Teológica Latinoamericana by the FTL branch in the United States of America/Canada. (Versión en Español/Spanish Version) March – 2008   We participants in the “Immigration, Mission and Community” Consultation, sponsored by the Latin American Theological Fellowship (FTL) that took place in Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, California) on March […]

Filed Under: Counseling and Exhorting Tagged With: immigrants, immigration, undocumented

What’s Your Excuse? …famous failures

February 6, 2009 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

What’s Your Excuse? by Grant Cardone, Author of “Sell to Survive”.   800-368-5771  gc@grantcardone.com   His teachers said he was “too stupid to learn anything” and was fired from his first two jobs for being “non-productive.” (Thomas Edison’s 1000 inventions came during the Panic of 1873 and the Long Depression, which lasted 29 years).   He […]

Filed Under: Counseling and Exhorting, Education Tagged With: excuse, fail, quit

Punishment and Reward

November 25, 2008 by Dennis Swick Leave a Comment

Punishment and Reward  …blog by Dennis Swick Sometimes parents can tell their child, “do this and you’ll get that.” This is a way of rewarding a child for good behavior. If the child behaves they might get ice cream as their reward. My son-in-law some times says to his 6 year old son, “if you […]

Filed Under: Christian Life, Counseling and Exhorting, God Tagged With: just, punishment, reward, suffering, unfair

Letter to Danny

October 14, 2008 by Keith Swift Leave a Comment

January 22, 2008 A Letter to Danny: The mortgage guys sure messed-up our economy through their greed and dishonesty by arranging inappropriate loans for under-financed home-wanters.  Now many are hurting with this economic downturn. Being unemployed, or under-employed, or loosing your house or an investment – is VERY tough to deal with.  Been there, done […]

Filed Under: Christian Life, Counseling and Exhorting, Heaven Tagged With: choice, creation, Creator God, heaven, hope, Salvation

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…a series about death and dying Just beyond the veil December 10, 2018 Just beyond this dimension where we live – there is a whole different existence prepared for us by God. And it’s eternal. Got your mind around that? “beyond the veil“. thefreedictionary.com: …in a mysterious or hidden place or state, especially… Filed Under: […]

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…setting my mind on things of God Colossians 3:2 Set your mind and keep focused habitually on the things above [the heavenly things], not on things that are on the earth [which have only temporal value]. Matthew 16:23 But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to […]

What is proper among saints

Ephesians 5:1-3.  “Therefore become imitators of God [copy Him and follow His example], as well-beloved children [imitate their father]; 2 and walk continually in love [that is, value one another—practice empathy and compassion, unselfishly seeking the best for others], just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to […]

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Are you ready to meet your Maker?

PIC: Waiting expectantly for your Master Jesus is returning to earth soon. Believe it?  Are you ready to meet your Maker?  Are you truly following Jesus, waiting expectantly for Savior Jesus – Master of the Universe?  He wants to take us all to His Home, Heaven. It behooves us who are following Him – to […]

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