Posts Tagged ‘friends’
Remember
https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/Remember.mp3 by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Ecclesiastes 12:1 I. At times I get teased about my memory. A. A researcher at Johns Hopkins noted the things people most often forget. 1. Names – 83% 2. Where something is – 60% 3. Telephone numbers – 57% 4. Words – 53% 5. What was said – 49% 6. Faces – 42% 7. Whether you’ve just…
Read MoreI don’t know what to do with myself
Question: Hi! I’m a 16-year-old boy. I’m writing because I don’t know what to do with myself. I’ve noticed you answer a lot of questions on your site. I’m not really asking anything, I guess I just don’t know what to do. I don’t have much of a life. I don’t go out much because…
Read MoreChoosing Friends
by James E. Cooper One of my college professors observed: “Fate made your relatives; choice makes your friends.” Those whom you choose to be your closest friends indicate what your attitude is toward spiritual things. It is a psychological fact that we are drawn to those who share our interests. Devoted Christians will want to…
Read MoreHow do you make an interesting conversation?
Question: I would like to ask some help on how to be a good conversationalist. You see, I have a problem when it comes to communicating with people. I’m quite a boring type of person and I cannot produce an interesting conversation. Can you help me with this? I also need advice on how to…
Read MoreShould I be friends with an annoying person?
Question: In math class, there is a student who is kind of annoying, but very social and has other friends. He wants to be friends with me, but he annoys me, or maybe it’s just his way of being a friend. For example, the last time I saw him he wanted to use every electronic…
Read MoreHow do you make friends?
Question: I wanted to ask you a question. I am kind of maybe what you call shy. Maybe because of the ten schools I have been through in my school life. Every year it has been a new school, but that stopped last year. Students in my class talk to me, saying things like “Hey!…
Read MoreMark Twain’s Cat
by Forrest D. Moyer, 1984 Mark Twain once said: “We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on the hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again —…
Read MoreShould married couples stay in touch on a regular basis with an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend?
Question: Should married couples stay in touch on a regular basis with an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend? And what if the friend is also married? Answer: Does a person’s likes and dislikes in particular personalities change just because they become married? If I really enjoyed golf and had a group of friends with whom I golfed,…
Read MoreIs same-gender love wrong?
Question: I need to ask a question about love. I have asked before about boy-boy or girl-girl relationships. Is there such a case that you can say it is proper if you’re a guy to be infatuated (or have a crush) on another guy, or for a girl (this is more common, I think) to…
Read MoreNotes on Friends
Examples I Samuel 18:1-4; 20:4-7 Jonathan and David Ruth 1:16 Ruth and Naomi Acts 18:3 Aquila, Priscilla, and Paul Nature Joshua 1:5 “No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake…
Read MoreHow did David and Jonathan show their love for each other?
Question: How did David and Jonathan show their concern (love) for one another? Can we act like them too? Answer: “The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul” (I Samuel 18:1). They made a covenant with each other “Then Jonathan and David made a…
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