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Jump-Start Your Relationship With Jesus Using These Simple Steps – Part 3

This is the third part of our series for the Christian seeking to improve your relationship with Jesus.  To link to Part 1, click HERE.  To link to Part 2, click HERE

In Part 2, we finished looking at the 1st of 4 steps in jump-starting your relationship with Jesus.

  1. Analyze
  2. Apologize
  3. Adjust
  4. Advocate

It can be a difficult thing to fully Analyze Your Friendship with Jesus, and it is the most time-consuming of the 4 steps.  We previously looked at Signs of a Bad Friend and Signs of a Good Friend in order for us to be more honest about our relationship.

Now that you have a more clear picture of where your relationship stands with Jesus, it is time to move on to the second step. Continue reading Jump-Start Your Relationship With Jesus Using These Simple Steps – Part 3

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Jump-Start Your Relationship With Jesus Using These Simple Steps – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the steps you need to take to jump-start your relationship with Jesus.  (You can link back to that article by clicking HERE.)  Those Steps are:

  1. Analyze
  2. Apologize
  3. Adjust
  4. Advocate

(Please understand, this series of articles is designed for the born-again believer.  If you are not already saved, the only way you can jump-start your relationship is by accepting Him as your Savior.) Continue reading Jump-Start Your Relationship With Jesus Using These Simple Steps – Part 2

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Jump-Start Your Relationship with Jesus Using These Simple Steps – Part 1

Recently, a lady in my Sunday School class shared that someone had told her not to take little things to Jesus.  Jesus isn’t to be bothered with little things.  He has too much to do.  My first thoughts were that Jesus is supposed to be our friend.  He wants a relationship with us.  Do you only talk to your friends about the “big” things in your life?  What a bizarre perspective!  My real friends and I talk about everything.  Silly things, things that don’t matter, things that make us happy, scary things, big things, medium-sized things, and yeah…little things.  If a person only talked to me about the big things in their life, I have to say, I don’t think I’d really consider them a friend.  That’s weird.  We wouldn’t really have a relationship. Continue reading Jump-Start Your Relationship with Jesus Using These Simple Steps – Part 1

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The Best Friend I Ever Had

Forrest & Jenny, Woody & Buzz, Sherlock & Watson, and Thelma & Louise.  These are some of the most famous best friends of all time.  But how does one acquire a best friend?  Friends come in all shapes and sizes, and from all walks of life.  They are born as your sister or cousin, or made from complete strangers.  My sister, Mary, and I are very close, and true friends.  Aside from my sister, I have a dear friend who is also my sister-in-Christ and we go to the same church.  But growing up, my best friend was a little girl with blonde hair.  She was sweet and kind, and she had a little sister about the same age as mine.  I remember the first time I saw her.  It was the first day of kindergarten.  I was already in the classroom.  I looked up, and she was coming through the doorway with her mother.  Her hair was up in doggy ears, and I knew immediately that we would be best friends. Continue reading The Best Friend I Ever Had