Sometimes Christians you've laughed and cried with do horrible things, making choices that end up serving only themselves and no one else. The devastation and sense of loss can be heart crushing. Some things to remember though: 1. They have to live with themselves forever. As long as they stay swimming in selfishness, they lose [...]
I think that many Christians have been indoctrinated with the idea that they don't have to do anything and it will all come to them as it should, and if it doesn't, then it wasn't meant to be. That's pretty much the same as saying that only some of us are predestined to be saved [...]
Choosing laziness will always make you feel worse. For example, if you’re sitting on the sofa eating popcorn and watching the fifth episode of a series, you’ve chosen to stay sitting there and snack rather than get up and do something that leaves you feeling satisfied. Picture the feeling of a library book dropped back, [...]
I read about a women whose one goal for the year was to fail one hundred times. In being willing to fail, she created hundreds of opportunities to succeed, and business boomed. Now she gets to interact with thousands of people and help them develop their own talent and passion, and they go on to [...]
We always have a choice when it comes to our past. We can list off all our triggers and claim that our response/hissy fit is valid because - duh - our past; or we can see all the places in our past where Jesus has applied his truth and respond to current stress with that. [...]
A brand is what people think of you. When your name comes to mind, what they think about, that’s your brand. -- James Rubart It can help to know what your brand is when you do anything entrepreneurial because then you stay true to who you are, to what drives you, to what keeps you [...]
