While I don't believe that Christians should live as slaves to clocks and schedules, so caught up in doing that we forget what we're about, I also believe that it's vital to our relationship with Christ and with others to be...well, reliable. God holds Himself accountable to His appointed times; why should we do any less? [Click title to read more.]
Tag: spiritual growth
It’s Okay To Be Earnest
We live in a world of artifice, where more often than not genuine enthusiasm and passion for something - for anything! - can be interpreted as caring too much, as trying too hard, as not being critical/cynical/skeptical enough. Our culture maintains a healthy scorn for those it deems to be enjoying themselves too much. But Christians should be different. [Click title to read more.]
The Transformation Is Not Because Of You
You are not responsible for your own goodness. The person you are "after" Christ has everything to do with God, and very little to do with you at all. [Click title to read more.]
The More We Grow, The Warier We Should Be Of Falling
We are never safe from our worst selves, because complacency and indifference grows as we mature. [Click title to read more.]
The Best Gift You Can Give Yourself Is Restraint
We assume often that our "holding back" benefits others: that it shields them from our scathing comments, our backbiting snark, our meanness, our deceptiveness. And it does. But restraint benefits us, too. [Click title to read more.]
The Hunger Blessing Week 4 Now Available
You're not supposed to have everything you need. Really. [Click title to read more.]
Make It Hard To Say No To God
Here's the thing: ignoring God is easier when it's a passive act. When we just sort of let it slide, when we never committed to speaking with Him in any concrete way to start, there's no moment of confrontation or decision where we must utter the truth: that we choose to ignore Him. [Click title to read more.]
The Hunger Blessing Week 3 Now Available
We must make a gift to God of our presence. Let's talk about how to set aside a special consistent time - not for study, not for church activities, and not for spiritual self-benefit, but for God alone. [Click title to read more.]
Be Mindful Of The Small Things
As wrapped up as we all are in the daily business of living, we miss the small signs in our behavior and in the behavior of others that might indicative something is amiss. [Click title to read more.]
You Are A Story You’ve Never Dreamed Of
God also knows all of our possibilities and strengths and what we have the capacity to do. More than we do, God has the vision of who exactly we are meant to be, what we might be like when we're everything He created us for. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 