Life has issues, and the Bible has the answers. Francie Taylor teaches the relevance of Scripture to daily life through these brief Bible application studies.
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Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Welcome to the second segment of Psalm 119 on Build Your Bible Habit. The Psalmist makes statements that could easily come from the heart of anyone who has been going through a lengthy time of trial and adversity, but you'll also hear hope and trust within this passage.
Build Your Bible Habit was launched as a special bonus segment Keep the Heart Podcast in 2022 with Proverbs, and now we're expanding it to include Psalm 119. The Bible helps us to live the Christian life with passion and victory. Psalm 119:27 makes a great theme verse for the week, and also makes a great prayer request: "Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works."
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Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Have you ever told a “little white lie?” This phrase refers to "lies that are told about small or unimportant matters to avoid hurting a person.”
"White lies" are a manmade concept, and they sound like these examples:
Your friend comes out of the fitting room in an outfit that’s too tight. She asks you, “Does this fit alright?” You say yes, even though your mind is screaming, “That’s waaaaay too small.”
Or maybe you’ve been served something for dinner and you really hated it, but you didn’t want to hurt the feelings of the hostess, so you lied and said, “This is really good!” That earned you a second helping. Oh oh.
Or perhaps you’ve had a run-in with someone that’s still unresolved. The other person asked you, “Is everything okay between us now?” Your mouth said, “Yeah, we’re all good,” but your mind said, “Not even close.” You’re trying to avoid confrontation and conflict, but you’re not telling the truth.
Lying is a tough habit, but it’s a breakable one. Let’s consider three ways we can begin to get rid of this ugly habit.
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Saturday Feb 04, 2023
Saturday Feb 04, 2023
Welcome to SayItAgain Saturday, where we replay popular episodes from the previous season! This episode first aired in January 2022, and we can tell by the downloads that it hit a nerve. After all, giving advice can lead to unexpected drama.
Are you able to listen to someone sharing a problem without trying to fix it? In other words, can you just listen, or are you formulating a solution as you listen, waiting to blurt it out as soon as the other person stops talking?
Listening to someone tell you that they’re about to make an unwise decision is really hard. We may want to try to talk the person out of their plans, but we know that by inserting ourselves like this, we could end up creating tension in the relationship. By saying nothing, it may seem like we’re agreeing, but if we speak the truth in love, we may get slapped into submission by a verbal rejection. Unsolicited advice is a field of land mines.
We can usually sense when a conversation is taking a sharp turn, and this can easily happen if we swerve into giving advice without having been asked. Unsolicited advice is easy to give but hard to take. If you've ever had someone deliver an analysis about your life that you never requested, you know how this lands on the ears.
What happens if we say something that then things blow up and we get chewed out? How can we sit by and watch someone running straight for the edge of an unseen cliff that we have in full view? Giving advice is tricky terrain. Let’s consider three things to keep in mind when we’re trying to discern when to speak and when to be silent.
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Friday Feb 03, 2023
Friday Feb 03, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 4 on the 4th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 4, reminding us that wisdom is the "principle thing," which is another way of saying, "first things first":
"Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding." (Proverbs 4:7)
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 3 on the 3rd etc.). Here's a familiar passage from chapter 3, with instructions both to trust the Lord for direction and to avoid running ahead of God with our own agendas:
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." (Proverbs 3:5-6)
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Proverbs LibraryBuild Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 1 on the 1st etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 1, reminding us that following God's Word brings peace and quiet even in the midst of difficult times:
"But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil." (Proverbs 1:33)
Monday Jan 30, 2023
Monday Jan 30, 2023
Welcome to the first segment of Psalm 119 on Build Your Bible Habit. This is the longest chapter in the Bible, so we’ll divide it into seven episodes. Psalm 119 is loaded with thoughts, instructions, and observations written to turn our hearts to a closeness with God. This chapter is written in twenty-two parts, following the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and each part consists of eight verses for a total of 176 verses. This episode begins with verses 1-24.
Build Your Bible Habit was launched as a special bonus segment Keep the Heart Podcast in 2022 with Proverbs, and now we're expanding it to include Psalm 119. The more we're in the Word, the greater we comprehend how to live. Psalm 119:18 makes a great theme verse for the week, and also makes a great prayer request: "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law."
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Sunday Jan 29, 2023
Sunday Jan 29, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 30 on the 30th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 30, teaching us that God is a protector to those who trust Him.
"Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him." (Proverbs 30:5)
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 28 on the 28th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 28, teaching us that "following your heart" is an unwise practice:
"He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered." (Proverbs 28:26)
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 27 on the 27th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 27, instructing us that it is better to have someone else sing our praises than for us to boast about ourselves:
"Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips." (Proverbs 27:2)
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 25 on the 25th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 25, teaching us that we need to keep our debates and disagreements between us and the person directly involved:
"Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another: Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away." (Proverbs 25:9-10)
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Have you ever listened to someone who was trying to sound like they knew what they were talking about, but you could tell that they were bluffing? That’s what’s going on today as people have coined the phrase, “I am speaking my truth.” When did it become possible to create new truth, as if we were just changing ingredients in a recipe?
Pretending to be an authority is as old as the Old Testament. What’s at the root of this is a desire to have our own way, hence, the creation of our own version of the truth. God’s Word is truth, but even the ruler Pilate in the New Testament didn’t recognize the truth. He was the one who asked Jesus, “What is truth?” And today, we can tell that many have the same question, and the answer is hiding in plain sight.
Jesus said this plain statement to His disciples in John 14:6: "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
Are we becoming confused because we’re overfed on cultural information and preferences but starving spiritually? Let’s look at three things you can do to protect yourself from deception.
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Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 23 on the 23rd etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 23, reminding us that wisdom is priceless:
"Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding." (Proverbs 23:23)
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 21 on the 21st etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 21, instructing us that it's often not a lack of money but a lack of money management that leads people to suffer from "too much month at the end of the money":
"There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up." (Proverbs 21:20)
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 20 on the 20th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 20, reminding us that we will have things happen in life that were not in our planners:
"Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?" (Proverbs 20:24)
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 18 on the 18th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 18, reminding us that it is important to ask questions and become good listeners before we attempt to give advice:
"He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him." (Proverbs 18:13)
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Welcome to season 3 of Keep the Heart podcast. I’m your host, Francie Taylor from Keep the Heart, a ministry devoted to making Bible study meaningful through Bible application and personal study. We’ve been told by our listeners that these podcast episodes feel like sitting at the dining room table with our Bibles, having coffee while discussing the issues of life with a sister friend.
Each episode covers interpersonal issues of life from a biblical perspective, with a goal of helping us learn how to handle matters wisely. Proverbs 16:20 tells us that "He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he." It’s a challenge to face so many issues, but wise handling is possible when we know the principles of scripture and apply them.
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Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 16 on the 16th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 16, reminding us that God knows our motives:
"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits." (Proverbs 16:2)
Friday Jan 13, 2023
Friday Jan 13, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 14 on the 14th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 14, teaching us that having a short temper makes us repellant to others:
"He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated." (Proverbs 14:17)
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 13 on the 13th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 13, teaching us that failure to choose our words carefully could be destructive (yes, we need filters):
"He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction." (Proverbs 13:3)
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 11 on the 11th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 11, reminding us that humility is a mark of wisdom:
"When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom." (Proverbs 11:2)
A convenient list of the Audio Proverbs is on the left sidebar on Podbean:
Keep the Heart Audio Proverbs Library
Sunday Jan 08, 2023
Sunday Jan 08, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 9 on the 9th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 9, urging us not to correct those who are mockers (scorners):
"Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee." (Proverbs 9:8)
A convenient list of the Audio Proverbs is on the left sidebar on Podbean:
Keep the Heart Audio Proverbs Library
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 6 on the 6th etc.). Here's a passage from chapter 6, teaching us that wasting time and talent is costly:
"Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man." (Proverbs 6:10-11)
A convenient list of the Audio Proverbs is on the left sidebar on Podbean:
Keep the Heart Audio Proverbs Library
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 4 on the 4th etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 4, which is also the theme verse for the ministry of Keep the Heart:
"Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." (Proverbs 4:23)
Life surely does have issues. Thankfully, the Bible has the answers.
A convenient list of the Audio Proverbs is on the left sidebar on Podbean:
Keep the Heart Audio Proverbs Library
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 2 on the 2nd etc.). Here's a verse from chapter 2, reminding us that wisdom is a gift from God:
"For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding." (Proverbs 2:6)
A convenient list of the Audio Proverbs is on the left sidebar on Podbean:
Keep the Heart Audio Proverbs Library