I would like in 2013 to become in every respect a better person, for the sake of my family, my friends, my neighbors, my country, my world and myself. I’ll bet you would, too.
Someone once asked me to suggest passages of Scripture that provide help for interacting with and relating to other people in ways appropriate for a Christian.
Most people familiar with the Bible remember the time when Jesus was asked to say which of the 613 commandments of the religious law of the time was the greatest (Matthew 22:34-38).
One of the questions asked of me most often has to do with how to find a more satisfying prayer life. "I don't feel that I pray very well," some have said. "Tell me how to pray better.
Someone once asked for a 'rule of thumb' about Christian ethics. I gave him this summary: "God is to be worshipped. People are to be loved. Things are to be used!"
In his book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, author Robert Fulghum proposes that we could have a much better world if all of us would remember these things:
