BLOG Hard Takes Time “Why now, after all this time?” You seem to be receiving that for which you have desired from God, for a very long time. You have lived your life believing God’s promises, enduring through much discouragement along the way. Now it seems that the promise is here and you find yourself …
BLOG Joy-Full One of the greatest complexities of life is that it’s all up to you. Your faith is up to you. Your joy is up to you. Your perspective is up to you. Which sounds simple. Yet, the complexity of this life is found in the fact that there are forces – people, situations, …
BLOG Your Life How do you define your life? Dictionary.com pus it this way: “The condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.” That’s a good definition, right? It doesn’t easily roll off the …
BLOG Asking The Wrong Question There’s this little confrontation between the Pharisees and Jesus in Matthew 22:34-40. It probably didn’t seem like much of a conflict to the casual observer. Yet, the casual observer didn’t have the benefit of Matthew’s commentary in verses 34-36: “Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got …
BLOG What’s Your Community? What’s your community? Who are your people? To whom do you belong and who belongs to you? Community can be experienced through a myriad of realities. Such as religious beliefs, educational aspirations, sexual orientation, political party, genetics, race and even something as simple as proximity. Everyone is part of some …
BLOG An Act Of Faith The primary property of faith is action. Action taken in response to what you believe. “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily …
BLOG My Mailbox, Lions and Freedom In my neighborhood there is a community mailbox area. A place, down by a lake, where everyone in the neighborhood must go to get their mail. No mailboxes at each house. Just one central location for everyone. Thus, it’s a pretty good bet that you will encounter a neighbor …
BLOG The Getting Real Point Dr. Walters had directed my every academic step in my undergraduate educational journey. For three years I never swayed. I never questioned. I simply did what Dr. Walters told me to do. I was sitting in his office one day in the spring of 1988. Dr. Walters was preparing …
BLOG The Humility Spectrum There is a big difference between being humble and being humbled. The former is a description of who you are. You understand that you aren’t the most important person in the room. You naturally think of others before yourself. You are honestly happy to simply be present. You find joy in …
BLOG What’s In It For Me? Let’s just go ahead and admit it – All of us do everything that we do in our lives with the hopes that it will make us feel better, make us richer, make us more attractive, make us healthier, make us stronger, make us win, etc. We do what …
