God’s vision is always bigger! Tony Fitzgerald says “When God touches you He already has more than you on His mind.” Sometimes we think is such small increments but God is so expansive. He wants to touch us so that He can impact all those whom we come in contact with. Hence one of [...]
Preservation or transformation, which do you lean toward? Like it or not, many of us focus on preservation. It is safer, expectations and outcomes clear, patterns are established, and I know how to function. Put the quarter in and the gum ball comes out, every time, on cue, as expected. I know what to expect [...]
You can easily count the number of seeds in an apple but you can never count the number of apples in any given seed. Such is the power of seeds and the exponential law of sowing. What you sow are seeds and while there may be a concrete, definable, or distinguishable amount of seeds you [...]
My Friend Jeff Hoglen writes, “When do you start leaving a legacy? Well, you actually started. Every decision that you have made, every attitude that you showed, every reaction and every action molds the overall perception which eventually forms legacy.” The question is not, “When are you going to start to leave a [...]
Dan Mohler at the Power and Love Conference said something along these lines that impacted me. While this is not a direct quote, it went something like this. If what you are doing would be hard for you to image Jesus doing, chances are you shouldn’t be doing it either. Pretty good advice! [...]
Too often we rely on the “3 R’s” in dealing with life circumstances. React - Usually our natural and first response to the situation or comment. Reaction usually isn't the best first step because it often carries with it an emotional response based upon the story that we are telling ourselves. Which is [...]
Focused! When a camera lens or even your eyes focus on something externally, they make the internal adjustments necessary to be able to see what you are looking at clearly. How disappointing it is to take a once in a moment photo, only to find out the lens you were looking through was out of [...]
Our attitude towards money reflects our hearts, our attitude towards money impacts our actions. It is my experience that one the hardest things to talk to people about is how they spend their money. The second is how they raise their children, but I’ll leave that topic for another day. Randy Alcorn says [...]
Woulda, coulda, shoulda! How much time do you spend thinking about the past and things that you should have done differently, or could have done better, or given the chance, wouldn’t even do at all? Unless you are rehearsing it in your mind so that you do not make the same mistake again, I [...]
After Jesus finished teaching the Beatitudes he spoke to the tendency of people wanting to take an oath to prove that their actions will follow their words. He said swearing by something just isn’t necessary, in fact He simply says don’t do it. For a person of integrity, it just isn’t necessary. Just simply [...]