The Big 3 of Living in God’s Peace, Hope, and Promises

Mark Furlong
5 min readOct 14, 2024

Practicing these 3 gives focus, clarity, and faith

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We live in such a complicated world that I love it when I discover simple truths and practices that change my life. The Bible encompasses God-breathed truths, but it is also over 1200 pages because it addresses every major part of life.

As a pastor and student of the Bible for over 4 decades, I’m always working to find the simple pillar principles and truths that God has built the rest of His commandments and instructions on.

God has set things up that most of His most fundamental truths are woven through Scripture using a variety of stories and concepts. It takes some effort to identify them, but it is well worth it.

They can literally change your life.

The most obvious is “The Great Commandment” to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves. These two commandments form the foundation for all the other commandments. (Romans 14–15)

But there are other groupings of instruction that are easy to remember once we see them. And when they are easy to remember, they are much easier to practice.

Here is my understanding of the top three practices for all of us to live according to…

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Mark Furlong
Mark Furlong

Written by Mark Furlong

Author, Coach Helping busy, active people know and live ALL of God’s purposes for their life: the COMPLETE life. www.markfurlong.substack.com