While many will set New Year's resolutions and declarations, you are to be applauded for your willingness to take new actions in your life. Realistically the difference between 2013 and 2012 is but a few hours. Change is hard work and it takes dedication and persistence. If the only thing sparking your willingness to change is the excitement...
December 31, 2012
November 20, 2012
Hope, Patience, & Prayer
Romans 12-12 "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. " (NIV)
The verse above is a pretty simple concept and it can hit home for all of us. It says that in my hopes I am to be joyful. Even while I am hoping for something to happen or for God to move, I must be joyful in my current state.
In my afflictions, I must exercise...
November 9, 2012
September 20, 2012
Freedom: A Double Edge Sword
Freedom. You
here it so much in the news. You've heard present and past Presidents say that countries need to be democratic and free like the USA. You here about how freedom is better for everyone, but I would
like to offer another perspective on freedom.
First
let's get a working definition of freedom. The
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary says...
August 21, 2012
Tests From Uncomfortable Places
Have you ever been somewhere and from afar, you see someone approaching you? In their approach, you have already predetermined several things about this person:
They are living a pretty rough life;
They are coming to ask you for some money;
They probably are going to do something with that money other than the reason in which they...
April 19, 2012
History Is On Your Side
One of the coolest things to know is that history is on your side. What history does for us is provide a record of what happened prior to the lead-up to where you are right now. The question is what are you choosing to do with it? Sometimes, we do not think about it much, but the way we carry ourselves through life has a big dependency...
April 5, 2012
Where Is Your Heart?
As I walked down the side walk on the way into work this morning, something hit me that I should do. As I thought about this idea, it struck me how much effort and thought I put into it. It was so easy to plan and conjure more ideas of how to make the previous idea work! It is amazing that the things we are passionate about are so easy...
March 22, 2012
Try It. You Might Like It.
(Photo courtesy of Mommy B Knows Best)
You should try it.
You might like it!
Try it. You’ll like it.
Try it. You’ll like it.
Try it. You’ll like it.
Try it. You’re gonna like it.
I know it’s new, and you’ve never tasted it.
You’ll just have to...
March 15, 2012
Natural Visionaries
Have you ever noticed the design of the human body? Have you ever noticed the placement of the eyes on our faces? I know this sounds pretty ridiculous because you are probably thinking, "Duh, yes I do know that our eyes are in our head and on our face." That's fine, but what I am more interested in is where on our head our eyes...
March 6, 2012
The Dangerous Feeling of Entitlement
2 Thessalonians 3:6-10 (6) In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching[a] you received from us. (7) For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you,...
March 1, 2012
This Life Was Never Promised to be Easy
Life can be one of the most interesting puzzles out there. Believe me, I can speak from experience. However, one thing that we tend to fall victim into believing is that life is suppose to be easy. Some how, we have come to believe the notion, that life is suppose to always be full of prosperity but I beg to differ. Last week,...
January 3, 2012
Keeping Expectations in the Face of Failure
Wile E. Coyote
Well Happy New Year Folks!! Over this past Christmas and New Years, I got the unusual chance to take a vacation. A long and well needed vacation unlike I have never taken before. As such I got to spend a lot of quality time with my wife...
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