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For Many Are Called But Few Are Chosen…
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 “For many are called and few are chosen is the last verse of a parable that Jesus spoke shortly before he went to Jerusalem to be crucified. A parable is a word picture of a deeper truth. On this occasion Jesus wanted to demonstrate how that all people are called to salvation but only a few will be chosen. That statement begs the question: does God randomly chose some and reject others? You need to see the context from which it comes to understand.…
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Change Your Attitude And Change Your Life…
Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. The remarkable thing is that we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past; we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I’m convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you. We…
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Meditation and Personal Development
Written by Jimmie Burroughs If we are going to succeed in the process of personal development, then we must set our minds (or meditate) on “spiritual, higher things”, only then can we with God’s help put off the old person we are and put on the new person we want to become. What we see, hear and look upon will determine the person we become. A Stanford University research team conducted studies recently that have revealed “what we watch” does have an effect on our imaginations, our learning patterns, and our behaviors: “First, we are exposed to new behaviors and characters. Next, we learn or acquire this new behavior. The…