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  • Try Some New Shoes

    Sometimes we are facing a problem or situation or decision and we feel like there’s just no good answer. We go around and around in our head but still can’t seem to come to a plan of action that we are one hundred percent behind. Might I suggest trying on some new shoes? No, not…

  • Experience Something Real

    Our world seems full of manufactured experiences that we can enjoy, but they cannot compare to the simple pleasures of real interactions with our world and with people.

  • Sow Your Seed

    I’ve thought much lately about how using the gifts that God gives us to serve others in like planting seed in the Kingdom of God. So, how should we go about using our gifts and planting our seed?

  • Take Time to Talk

    A big part of a relationship is to relate to each other, and that means taking time to talk every day. So what does that mean for the most important relationship in your life?

  • Choose the Open Path

    Life is often about choices, and those choices not only determine where we go and what we experience in your lives, but they even determine who we become as people. Although we like to think that we remain the same over time, research shows that this is not true. Many of our values, interests, and personality traits may seem…

  • Draw Your Line

    “What is it then to be properly educated? It is learning… to separate the things that lie within our power from those that don’t.” — Epictetus, Greek philosopher “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.” — Reinhold…

  • Give Your Gift

    Today, I would like you to give your gift. What? What do you mean by that? I hear you say. Well, I guess to give your gift, you have to know what your gift is, right? What? You don’t you know that God has placed a gift in your hands? Yes, He has. He has placed…

  • Are You the Calm or the Storm?

    My sweet wife Tina loves to tell people, “John is the calm in my storm.”  But I could probably equally say, “Tina is the storm in my calm.” So what in the world are we talking about? What we are talking about is a complementary relationship. When you have two people in a healthy relationship,…

  • How Can I Grow?

    Yesterday we talked about facing challenging situations and three words to use in any life challenge: Bring More Love. Today I want to bring in four more words that we can always use to re-orient our attitude in life’s challenges: How Can I Grow? I believe that the Spirit’s purposes in everything that life brings us, good…

  • Bring More Love

    Today you will face a challenging interaction with someone, whether in person or by phone or text or email. There is one course of action that will always get results and align you with God’s power: bring more love.

  • Learn to Feel God’s Path

    What does the Bible mean when it says we walk by faith and not by sight? There is a way that is beyond rules, beyond logic, and beyond emotion, and that is to learn to feel God’s path.

  • Every Breath Is a Miracle

    I am a morning person. That doesn’t make me any better than people who aren’t morning people, it’s just how I tick. I find that the first few hours after I awake are usually when my mind is most clear and I can be most creative and productive, and often most in tune with what God…

  • God Is in the Lemonade Business

    As we’re walking in faith with God all of us will face the time that will challenge our faith and threaten to derail it altogether, and that’s when we have faith that God will bring something good or prevent something bad and He does not. The cancer that you asked to be healed and knew…

  • When You Don’t Know the HOW, Trust the WHO

    Over the next few days I want to break down how I approach walking by faith as a child of God into some little bite-sized chunks. The first chunk is “when you don’t know the HOW, trust the WHO. Every day we face challenges and decisions that are beyond the ability of our minds to come up…

  • We’re Here to Love People, not Please People

    I had a great comment on Facebook yesterday asking about the problem of people pleasing. If you have trouble pleasing everyone in your life, let me start by letting you ponder this: not everyone feels this way. There are truly loving and kind people who do not feel bad when they can’t please everyone. So, when you…

  • Remember That They’re Human Too

    I want you to realize that today you will encounter someone who will be rude or inconsiderate to you. Maybe someone who will treat you unfairly, become angry or frustrated with you, possibly even hurt you. I guarantee it. But I also want you to realize that you will encounter someone today that was abused…

  • Build the Kingdom of God

    One of Jesus’ favorite topics to talk about was the Kingdom of God.  He spoke about it in all four Gospels dozens of times. Many of His parables were specifically designed to explain what he meant by the Kingdom of God, and the Gospel writers repeatedly described his and their ministry as “bringing the good…

  • The Obstacle Is Meant to Be There

    There are many ways we commonly look at obstacles in our lives– sometimes with fear, or with anger, or with frustration, or overwhelm, or resignation, or sometimes even guilt or depression. But there’s one way, perhaps the best way, to view an obstacle that doesn’t usually occur to us at all: that the obstacle is…

  • One Small Change

    A few weeks ago I started eating an orange for breakfast. It was one small change in my life for the better. It’s really easy to do— it only requires a few minutes of my time, and I’ve actually grown to enjoy my little daily ritual of peeling the orange and eating it one slice…

  • What Are You Holding On To?

    I want to talk today about the things we hold on to, and I want to start out, strangely enough, by telling you the story of the most famous snow globe in all of movie history.  This is the snow globe from the 1941 movie Citizen Kane, which many people have never seen but is…

  • Within Without Beside

    Today I want us to think about three ways that God relates to us, both theologically and “in real life.”  I know, that makes theology seem separate from real life, which it shouldn’t be, but let’s face it, it’s sometimes hard to see the connection between the struggles and joys of this human life and…

  • I’m Especially Fond of You

    I went last night to see the movie The Shack, based upon the book of the same title. It is a beautiful picture of God’s love and I recommend both the movie and the book. In it a man who is struggling with deep depression and guilt meets God. And even in the mess of…

  • Imagine Getting a Hug From God

    I want you to right now close your eyes and imagine getting the best hug in the world from the person who loves you the most, whether that is a parent or a friend or a sibling or a spouse. Feel that warm beautiful feeling just thinking about it? That’s the power of a hug.…

  • Nothing Can Block God’s Plan For Me

    Discouragement:  being deprived of courage, hope, or confidence; being disheartened and dispirited Discouragement: it’s a feeling we all have to deal with, often every day. We see the future, we see a vision of who we would like to become, what we would like to achieve. But inevitably, we face problems and obstacles, some of them small and merely…

  • You Only Need Strength For Today

    “Can you please talk about “Strength?” Cause my bff/sis has Breast Cancer. And I need all the strength I need to help her though this.” When I read this, I didn’t know what to say, what to write. And I prayed for God to give me something that would be meaningful and would be helpful.…

  • There’s No “But…” with God

      We are all masters of the “but…” It started when we were kids: “Billy go clean your room” “But, Mom…” Then things progressed as we got older: “Mary, you have to be home by eleven” “But, Dad….” Unfortunately, our genius talent for coming up with reasons why something isn’t a good idea or won’t…

  • Surprise Someone

      Taking time to examine and reflect on your life and see how you can change and grow is a vital part of living this human life. But, some days, it’s good to just put that aside and do something simple and direct. So today my challenge to you is to surprise someone. It doesn’t…

  • Tomorrow Is Not Promised

    I was watching a Facebook Live with Sterling K. Brown (his video archive page is here) that went viral this week.  Sterling plays Randall Pearson on the NBC series This is Us. So why have nearly two million people viewed a shot-on-his-phone video in a hotel room? Once you see it you realize that it’s because, just like…

  • Not Me But God Through Me

    The way we view the world makes an enormous difference in our lives. Whether you call it our “lens” or our “worldview,” the mental filter that we use to interpret life basically creates our whole experience of  life.  If we change the way we see the world, it’s like getting an instant upgrade on our experience of…

  • Give Yourself What You’re Hungry For

    You must give yourself what you’re hungry for. Not only is that truth, not only is that good advice, but it’s a non-negotiable law of the universe, no different than the law of gravity. You ignore it to your peril. Give yourself what you’re hungry for, and you will live and heal and grow. Deprive…