Be Grateful: Look Back!

How do you feel when you extend kindness and help and those you've helped forget about your kindness? What does ingratitude say about those who forget? Oliver Goldsmith said, "Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good." How do you protect yourself … Continue reading Be Grateful: Look Back!

The Ministry of Complaining: Stay Away!

There are people who have the ministry of complaining. The temperature is never comfortable it is either too hot or too cold. The neighbors are too noisy; the lines at the restaurant are too long. And their pet peeve is that food prices are too high. I must agree with that one, food prices are … Continue reading The Ministry of Complaining: Stay Away!

The Danger of Complaining

An unthankful and complaining spirit is an abiding sin against God, and a cause of almost continual unhappiness; and yet how common such a spirit is. How prone we seem to be to forget the good that life knows, and remember and brood over its evil – to forget its joys, and think only of … Continue reading The Danger of Complaining

The Ministry of Complaining

There are times in life when people take membership in the ministry of complaining. They complain about everything: the Sunday morning service is too long and on another day, it's too short. They complain about the pastor, and any topic you can mention, they will find a reason to complain. They have a premium membership … Continue reading The Ministry of Complaining