The whole art of Christian living is to know how to talk to yourself. If you do not preach to yourself you are not a Christian. A Christian is a preacher, he preaches to himself. You start your day by telling yourself, “Now I am the new man, I am no longer the old man; my old man has been crucified with Christ, my old man is dead, finished with, he is non-existent; I am no longer what I was. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature, a new creation; old things have passed away, behold all things are become new.” You start the new day by saying that to yourself. It will not be said to you, it will not happen automatically to you. The devil will speak to you the moment you wake up, and he will say a thousand and one things to you to depress you before you are even out of bed. Therefore we have to make a resolution; we are going to get up and to say, “I am a new man in Christ.” It literally has to be done in detail in this way.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, “Darkness and Light: An Exposition of Ephesians 4:17-5:17,” pg. 145
Great advice!
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If you look on the right side of the blog, immediately under my photo, it says "Follow by Email" - just type your email in there. If that doesn't work, email me at the address just below that box and I can "install" it at a section in my admin page -- I do have one subscriber who has a computer which doesn't like the cookie for the email sign-up (she's the first I've ever heard with that problem but we worked around it).
As for a search box, that is in the upper left corner when you are at the top of a page.
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