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10 Guidelines for Choosing Your Mate
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend Today the divorce rate stands around 50%. This means that a lot of people are choosing their mate badly. Actually the divorce rate doesn’t give the full picture. Of 10 marriages only 5 stay married, 2 stay married because of finances or the children, that leaves only 3 out of 10 who are in some way compatible. It is believed that only 1 or 2 out of 10 marriages are actually a happy marriage. It is true that you will never find the perfect…
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The Two Approaches to Personal Development…
“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.” —Albert Einstein Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend There are two approaches to personal development: Secular personal development and Christian personal development. Secular personal development is a self-help form of personal development. This is a legitimate approach, in that it does help people to become better human beings and live more successful and meaningful lives. Christian personal development revolves around having a personal relationship with God. Through his indwelling Holy Spirit, we are…
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What is Spiritual Death?
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend The definition of death is “separation”. Physical death comes when there is a separation from life unto death. This means that the person who dies is separated from the living, from friends, from family and from all of life experiences. Spiritual death is a separation from God. “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” (Romans 5:12) Since all have sinned, all are separated from God…