Christian Pen Pals

BE WISE ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS Background Passages: Proverbs 12:16,18-19; 14:17,22,29; 15:1,18; 16:28,32; 17:9,14,17,19; 20:3; 19:11; 22:24-25,25:15; 26:21; 28:23 Lesson Passages: Proverbs 12:18; 28:23; 15:1; 25:15; 12:19; 16:28; 17:9; 14:17,29; 15:18; 20:3; 16:32; 19:11; 22:24-25; 12:16; 17:14,19; 26:21; 14:22; 17:17 BIBLICAL SETTING 1. Choose Your Words (Proverbs 12:18; 28:23; 15:1; 25:15; 12:19; 16:28; 17:9) 2. Control Your Temper (Proverbs 14:17,29; 15:18; 20:3; 16:32; 19:11) 3. Consider Consequences (Proverbs 22:24-25; 12:16; 17:14,19; 26:21; 14:22; 17:17) OUTLINE 1. Choose Your Words Carefully (Proverbs 12:18; 28:23; 15:1;25:15; 12:19; 16:28; 17:9) 2. Cultivate Patience (Proverbs 14:17,29; 15:18; 20:3; 16:32; 19:11) 3. Consider Consequences (Proverbs 22:24-25; 12:16; 17:14,19; 26:21; 14:22; 17:17) KEY VERSE: Proverbs 17:17 BIBLICAL TRUTH God expects His people to build and to maintain healthy relationships with one another. LIFE IMPACT To help you work wisely to build and maintain h

Martyred 1555 Ridley and Latimer appeared together September 30, 1555 in Oxford before a panel of bishops to answer the charges of heresy that had been brought against them. Ridley was examined first. The Bishop of Lincoln began by urging Ridley to recant and submit himself to the Pope. "If you will renounce your errors, recant your heretical and seditious opinions, consent to yield yourself to the undoubted faith and truth of the gopel ... authority is given to us to receive you, to reconcile you, and upon due penance to join you into Christ's Church." The bishop stressed three points: • That the Pope was descended from Peter, who was the foundation of the Church. • That the early Church fathers confessed the Pope's supremacy in their writings. • That Ridley once believed this himself. Ridley replied to the three points. First, he said, it was not Peter who was the Church's foundation, but Peter's confession that Christ was the Son of God. This belief is the