We all struggle with knowing the difference between the enemy taunting us and God teaching us. The tension between knowing if our situation is a trial we should escape or a testing we should embrace. We certainly don’t want to give the enemy blame for something God is doing, and we don’t want to give […]
Mother Teresa said, “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” If there is a word that should define Christians, it is undoubtedly the word…LOVE. Being a follower of Christ revolves around the central idea of love. Love is what defined Christ, and love is what should define […]
You’ll never live life to the fullest if you can’t laugh. In fact, laughter is as much of a spiritual thing as any other element of faith. Holocaust survivor and founder of Logotherapy Viktor Frankel said, “Humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any […]
Where your focus goes your energy flows. That’s because what we look at is what we go toward. I am notorious for this phenomena while driving. If I look left…I start drifting left, if I look right…I start drifting right. Spiritually, this happens to us as well. This is why the Bible encourages us to […]
Some things just don’t go together. They don’t make sense. I came across these funny terms that really shouldn’t make sense, but we use them anyway: Found Missing Same Difference Threadless Screws Jumbo Shrimp Stand Down Self-Help Group Silent Alarm Microsoft Works Plastic Glasses Tragic Comedy Exact Estimate Here are some phrases that really don’t […]
Wisdom is one of the most powerful tools that we can possess in life. It can be the difference maker in someone’s future and destiny. The Bible has a lot to say about the topic of Wisdom. Proverbs 2:1-7 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 2 turning your ear […]
Once you get faith you now need to grow it. In fact, once you get it, it is our responsibility to grow it. Growth is not an automatic process. We do not magically get better. We only get better when we intentionally grow ourselves. Just because you are using your faith doesn’t necessarily mean you’re […]
Faith is not just about having it, and using it…it’s about giving it away as well. We fall short in the complete work of faith if we are not sharing it with others. It’s great to receive something, but it’s even greater to give something. In fact, numerous studies have even shown us that helping […]
In my early twenties I worked with an amateur boxer at a shipping center. Each day that I came to work, he would share boxing tips with me that he was learning during his training. Looking back, I realized that some of the principles he taught me could apply to our spiritual fight as well. […]
Faith…you gotta have it in order to use it. You can’t step out in faith if you don’t have faith. Faith doesn’t magically appear in our life. It is something that we acquire over time and practice. Each one of us has a measure of faith; some greater, some smaller. The good news is that […]