Category: Daily Life

Love: The Missing Link

09/11/2015Daily Life, Gospel, Sharing the Gospel, Spiritual Walk, , , 2 Comments

post166graphic“And yet I will show you the most excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.” – 1 Corinthians 12:31b-13:1 NIV

Boy, are we hearing a cacophony of resounding gongs and clanging cymbals of late! There is a lot of name-calling, Bible quoting, hurtful, slanderous, and hateful words tossed around by many angry Christians and with good reason, but perhaps poor judgment.

Christians are writing and saying unkind things to both Christians and non-Christians. There seems to be an air of confrontation permeating every conversational medium and continue here

For the Sake of Holiness?

09/08/2015Daily Life, Spiritual Walk, , , 8 Comments

post165picHow far are you, how far am I, willing to go for the sake of holiness?

This has been a busy summer for our culture. Same sex couples received the right to get married. Planned Parenthood was outed as a seller of baby parts. Bruce Jenner changed his name and his body parts and insisted everyone call him Caitlyn. And, most recently, a teenage boy with gender confusion demanded that he be allowed in the girls’ locker room.

There is much going on in our nation, our culture, our churches, and our homes that is overwhelmingly confusing to many of us. As Christians, we sometimes feel caught between a rock and a hard place: we want to gently share the love of Christ with people who are hurting, but too often continue reading here

In Defense of Discontent

08/11/2015contentment, Daily Life, Spiritual Walk, Summer Challenge, , , , , , , 4 Comments

blog161pixWe’ve been striving toward the goal of contentment throughout the summer, but I dare say, there is one area of our lives where we must fight contentment and purposefully remain discontent. There is a realm where there is no excuse, or room, for contentment.

As Paul taught we must learn contentment in all of our circumstances – the things around us that continually change — however, as Christians, we are not to be content concerning continue here

Contentment Tool #6: Mind Your Imagination!

07/21/2015contentment, Daily Life, Spiritual Walk, Summer Challenge 1 Comment

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“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence!”

Or is it?

Could it be that what we think we see on the other side of the fence is not real? What if the circumstances that we think we need to make us happy are nothing more than our imaginations run amok?

Unregulated imaginations are dangerous animals that distort reality and can greatly inflate the worth of one thing over another. For example, why do roses cost more than tulips? find more here

The Mom Award

05/26/2015Daily Life, , , , , , 3 Comments

If you’re a mom, you’ve probably given yourself one or more, “Mom Awards”. You know the ones I mean: “Worst Mom of the Hour/Day/Week/Month/Year or Decade”; and the most despised: “Worst Mom of the Century”.

I have a closet full! There are days when I received all of them in one afternoon.

We rarely give ourselves awards for the things we do well, but oh how quickly we are to engrave our names on the trophy cups of failure and shame. And then place them on the dark shelves of our past

We declare ourselves failures when we
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