Have you noticed that hard and challenging circumstances can become easier when
you have a friend by your side? You can keep going when you have a friend who walks
beside you or encourages you.
All in Friendship
Aroma of a Good Friend
The Bible compares a pleasant aroma to a friend’s wise counsel. A friend who invests in
your spiritual well-being is someone you desire to be around or strive to be like. These
people encourage you, give you sound advice, or set you straight when you are walking
away from godly truth. To have friends invest in you is a sweet aroma.
Schedule Friendship Time
If we are not careful, we can allow our schedules, tasks, and demands to overshadow
the joy and beauty of friendship time. Don’t wait for an invitation, start the process.
Circle of Friends
True friendships know everything about you – the good, the bad, and the ugly – and
love you anyway. You enjoy life together, share countless stories, and encourage each
other to look more like Jesus
Beauty of Friendship
I have never been without a friend. The Lord has always brought me friends even
through the different journeys in life: moving away, disconnection, even death.
The Lord always provided a new friend to come into my life.
My Father and My Friend
Women love to talk!
We love to get with our friends and just share our lives up and downs, heartaches and challenges, love and romances, compliments and complaints. We just love to talk.
Friends Who Lead Us to Truth
Friends, we need people in our lives to tell us the truth — even when it’s hard.
As Iron Sharpens Iron
Relationships shape us more than we realize. This article looks at how God uses friendships, even the challenging ones, to refine our character, reveal blind spots, and help us grow in righteousness through honesty and grace.
A Handbook for Pilgrims
The impossible had become possible. The Israelites escaped the tyranny of Egypt, crossed the Red Sea on dry land, feasted on manna and quail, were refreshed by water from a rock, and received the Ten Commandments along with instructions on how to live in God’s favor. And all this in thirteen months. They were at the brink of the Promised Land, ready to roll.
Mat-Carrying, Roof-Raising Friends
It didn’t take long for Jesus’ ministry to take off following His forty days of temptation in the desert (4:1-13). Luke is peppered with brief snapshots of Him teaching, healing, connecting with the people: the news about (Jesus) spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of all their sicknesses (5:15).
The Thoughtfulness of God
I have a friend who is gifted with thoughtfulness. Every time I see her, she has a little gift for me.
Restored
Sometimes when you first meet someone, you are not sure how this relationship will go.
When I consider my relationship with God, I am shocked by what Scripture reveals about how He first perceived me.
Unity
A small rock sits on my kitchen window sill as a reminder of a recent summer day. I attended a prayer gathering on our downtown square.
Walking with Believers
Man was not created to walk alone. God created each of us to walk with Him. He also designed us to walk with others. In Genesis 1 God declared all He created to be good. But then God identified something as not good. God said, It is not good for the man to be alone… (Genesis 2:18).
Taking Offense
My five-year-old grandson did not appreciate me good heartedly teasing his baby brother about spitting up all over his bib. “That’s what bibs are for!” he scolded me indignantly. I tried not to giggle at him and thought it quite sweet for him to take up for his brother.
A Friend Who Sticks
Let’s zoom in on a snippet of a mutual friend’s experience…
Decades ago, young Ellen’s forehead and gums erupted frequently with large, painful boils. Itchy dandruff patches covered her scalp. Classmates taunted her, adding to her shame.
Love Moved First
Are you a planner? Do you enjoy social interactions and to spend time with friends and family? Do you take the initiative and invite them for lunch or coffee?
Unity
A small rock sits on my kitchen window sill as a reminder of a recent summer day. I attended a prayer gathering on our downtown square.
Stop and Help
Have you ever stopped to help someone, but then later realized you were the one who was blessed?
My husband is a salesman. He walks in and out of hospitals all day in hopes of making connections that will ultimately save a patient’s life. He knows every back stairwell, fast elevator and good area for cell service.
Walking with Believers
Man was not created to walk alone. God created each of us to walk with Him. He also designed us to walk with others. In Genesis 1 God declared all He created to be good. But then God identified something as not good. God said, It is not good for the man to be alone… (Genesis 2:18).