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Can You Trust Anyone Anymore…?
Written by Jimmie Burroughs Can you trust the police officer a few doors down? Not always; A story surfaced this week of the arrest of a former police officer who abducted a 6 year old girl in Illinois in 1956, daughter of a nearby neighbor, klled her, after who knows what he did, and dumped her body in a wooded area where it was not discovered for a couple of years. A discrepancy in his alibi was just uncovered recently and he is now to stand trial. Can you trust your own pastor? Once again the answer is, no not every pastor. My own pastor tried to hit on my…
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Becoming a Better Person is the Secret to Building Better Relationships…
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” (Ephesians 4:32, King James Version) Three of the most common things I’ve noticed over the years in my counseling experiences are that couples are often unkind to one another, often express anger toward each other and have an unforgiving attitude. All three of these are just characteristics of lack of growth or you could say immaturity. Maturing means becoming a better person: “Becoming a Better Person is the Secret to Building Better Relationships.” It’s called personal development. So the purpose of this article is to discuss how to reverse those three…
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Personal Development begins with winning attitudes
By Jimmie Burroughs I have known some successful people and I’m searching out my mind to discover what their attitudes are and I’m finding them strikingly different from the attitudes of the average person. One of the things I’ve noticed is that they are precision thinkers is that their observations are not mere speculations of what might be or what fate is bound to hand us or what our destiny is. They think in terms of making things happen. To them it is not waiting for the other shoe to fall but it is making the right choices to control where it falls. Things to them come about not by…