Turns of Life
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, May 1st 2017 Share the goods! In life, we must learn to make sure that when we are riding a motorcycle in tandem that we lean in the same direction when making turns. Otherwise, we will be thrown off balance. On the straight turns of life (money in the bank, health going well, no job stress), it is easy to ride in the same direction. It is when you have to make the turns that you need cooperation with one another! You have to lean in the same direction at the same time, or you are going to tip over. The reason why Christians are divorcing at record numbers is that they fail to make the turns together. See, it is easy to go through life making the straight drives, but it is the turns in life that require working together. When someone loses a job, when someone gets sick, when they have a child who is acting in a wayward manner, it is then that we must learn to lean in the same direction!!! If a relationship falls apart, it will fall apart in the turns. Very few people have been trained to lean in the turns. It is a couple’s ability to lean in the same direction that will determine whether that relationship flourishes or disintegrates. The turns in life require team work. Click To Tweet MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process...
Who’s The Best
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, October 3rd 2016 Share the goods! During the 2005 football season, Keyshawn Johnson, who was then a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys made a statement. He stated that he was a better receiver than Michael Irving because he played a more all-around game. What he meant was that he was involved on every play, blocking and preventing tackles, and not just being a pass catcher!! This caught the attention of many football fans. First of all Michael Irvin has 3 Super Bowl rings. Besides that, most people feel outright that Michael Irvin was a better receiver. But one point that Keyshawn had in his favor was that in his career he made a choice to do the intangible things that didn’t show up on any stat sheets or get noticed by the fans and the rest of the world. In a strange way, this is something that every man has to deal with in his own way. How will you feel at the end of your life? Click To Tweet To be a “Keyshawn Johnson man, in a Michael Irvin world” what does that mean? It may mean that as a father he is blocking for his children’s education by helping them with their homework when he comes home at night even though he is tired after a long day in the office. Or he may be blocking for the longevity of his marriage by getting up in the middle of the night for his children so that his wife can get some sleep. Suppose you don’t make the Hall...
Busy Signal
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, September 19th 2016 Share the goods! If you are like me, you hate to be trapped in a sea of voice mail automation when you want to talk to a person live to address an issue. Before the days of caller ID, do you remember what it felt like to call a number and get a busy signal? This pulsating tone would fill your ears and it always seemed like it was an insult or a form of rejection. You felt rejected because someone was not waiting by the phone for your call. In fact, in the early days some businesses realized that busy signals drove customers away, so what they would do was continually remind the callers that they were on “hold” and they would be enthusiastically answered in a moment or two. Some have even switched over to bland melodies by Muzak. But no matter how you look at it, there is somebody on the other line who is too busy to talk to you. It takes a dedicated parent to cancel golf, cocktail parties and trips to the city to spend time in ordinary talk with their children. Click To Tweet This is the same with many children in the homes of absentee fathers. The children frequently hear busy signals. In fact, many of the busy signals come in the form of “Don’t bother me” or “I’m tied up.” For many men, leisure appointments, deadlines, money, and other objects of adult interests seem to be more important than any of the child’s interest. So often the fathers will...
Sculpture’s Mindset
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, September 12th 2016 Share the goods! There is a legend of a medieval sidewalk superintendent who asked three stone masons on a construction project what they were doing. The first said he was laying bricks. The second described his work as that of building a wall. But it was a third laborer who demonstrated genuine esteem for his work when he said, “I am raising a great cathedral.” Raising children is a God-given responsibility. Click To Tweet Pose those same questions to two fathers concerning their role in the family, and you are liable to get the same contrast. The first man may say, “I am supporting a family,” but the second may see things differently and say, “I am raising children.” The former looks at his job as putting food on the table, but the latter sees people from God’s perspective in that he is shaping lives. To shape lives, suggests that the sculptor is at work cutting and chipping, chiseling out of raw material a beautiful object of art. MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process purpose relationships respect restoration righteousness sex sin success temptation trials women Help us continue helping others! DONATE TODAY Share the goods! Monday, September 12th 2016 RELATED VERSES Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV) Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Matthew 3:17 (NKJV) And suddenly a...
Family Lead
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, August 15th 2016 Share the goods! When you watch auto racing, the race begins with a pace car – a beautiful new automobile especially chosen each year to get out in front of the high-powered racers and lead them around the track for a few laps. The pace car guarantees that every race car driver gets a fair chance; that everyone is in the proper position and moving at a uniform speed when the green starting flag is dropped. At the moment the pack of race cars is properly positioned, the pacer gets out of the way fast. The family needs someone to set the pace and the tempo of life. Click To Tweet Also, if you have ever been to a concert you will see that people pay high prices because of one man in the concert: the conductor. He enters to the applause of the audience. A hundred instruments are poised by a hundred tense musicians. Each is prepared to make a special kind of musical response to his beat; each section will produce melodic lines and rhythmic patterns different from the others. It is the conductor who will weave all the differences together and ensure that the orchestra keeps faith with the composer’s intentions. He will establish standard tempo and standard volume. He will bring out the sole parts ensuring that the orchestra colors (infuses) with the background with just the right musical hues so that the soloist reaches the anticipated excellence. Without the conductor, the fine set musicians and the most expensive instruments produce only inartistic chaos....
That’s My Child
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, February 1st 2016 Share the goods! This is the story of a mother who lost her daughter in a house fire…or so she thought. One day a woman was told that her house had burned down and her young daughter had died, but she was never fully satisfied with the explanation that the police gave her because she never saw the remains to positively identify her daughter. Mothers have a certain sense about their children; they’re super sensitive, observant and insightful and know every detail of a child’s body right down to the dimples. When God looks at you He knows, “that’s My child! Click To Tweet Several years later the mother went to a children’s birthday party and saw a young girl who had a dimple in her cheek that was identical to the one her daughter had. After studying the girl she quickly concluded, “That’s my child!” The authorities investigated, and discovered that a woman had indeed kidnapped the child and burned down the house to cover her tracks. The kidnapper was arrested and the child was returned to her mother. What’s the point of this story? No matter how long satan may have had his hands on your life, when God looks at you He knows, “that’s My child!” MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process purpose relationships respect restoration righteousness sex sin success temptation trials women Help us continue helping others!...
The Father’s Heart
Every day a little girl would ask her father to bring her some ice cream on his way home from work. One day, the father had a horrible and hectic time at work, confronting one problem after another.
Legacy of a Father
The salmon nearly leaped onto their hooks. This was a far cry from the previous day when it seemed like the anglers could not catch a thing. Disappointed but not discouraged, they climbed aboard their small seaplane and skimmed past the Alaskan mountain to a pristine, secluded bay where the fish were sure to bite.
Frazier’s Support
Joe Frazier’s son Marvis decided that he wanted to keep championship boxing in the Frazier family line. So he started boxing in the heavyweight division, and finally got his shot against Larry Holmes.
Life Without Role Models
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, January 16th 2017 Share the goods! Who was behind the murders of Pilanesberg’s rhinos in South Africa some years ago? Elephants. Why would elephants kill rhinos? Well, like juvenile delinquents, they had grown up without role models. “I think everyone needs a role model and these elephants that left the herd had no role model and no idea of what appropriate elephant behavior was,” said Gus Van Dyk, Pilanesberg Park’s Field Ecologist. The problem goes back 20 years to South Africa’s largest conservation area, Kruger National Park. Kruger had too many elephants. In those days, there was no way to relocate their large adult elephants. So researchers decided to kill the adults and save the children, who were more easily transported to other parks. The government veterinarian, Dr. Hym Ebedes, who originally approved the relocations, said it was a good idea. He said that he considered the possibility that the young elephants might not adjust well, but that there was no other option. The intentions may have been good, but the program created a whole generation of traumatized orphans thrown together without any adults to teach them how to behave. Years later those lonely orphans developed into troubled teenagers. That’s when the killings at Pilanesberg Park began. Everyone needs a role model and there is no better role model than Christ Jesus. Click To Tweet Like a police department facing a crime wave, the rangers photographed the murder scenes and put together rap sheets on the prime suspects, giving them each name. One of the suspects was named Tom Thumb. “We’ve...
Running The Race
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, June 27th 2016 Share the goods! In August 1992 at the Barcelona Summer Olympics, Derrick Redmond from Great Britain was favored to win the 400 meter race. But as he powered around the backstretch, his hamstring snapped. Derrick tried desperately to finish the race, but he still had half the distance to go. Because he couldn’t walk, he began to hop. One step — a grimace. Two steps — a yell. Jim Redmond, Derrick’s dad, had to get to his struggling son. He doesn’t remember all the steps down from section 131, row 22, seat 25 of the Olympic stadium. He doesn’t really remember leaping over the railing or pushing off security guards who were too stunned to stop him. He was not just a spectator at the Olympics anymore; Jim Redmond was a father, and he had to get to his son. “Dad,” Derrick said, “Dad …Get me back to lane five. I want to finish.” God wants to help us finish our race. Click To Tweet And leaning on each other, father and son made their way around the track as the crowd rose to their feet cheering, and the whole world watched. Olympic organizers can light the skies with fireworks, they can invite kings and queens, but this was the magic of real life. That day people saw an example of great courage, but they witnessed an even greater story about love. Derrick’s father was wearing a Nike hat that said “Just do it.” As we run the race God’s called us to run and we stumble, limp...
Call Me Joseph
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, March 21st 2016 Share the goods! There was a couple that had five miscarriages in nine years, and as you can imagine, they were devastated. The husband’s name was Joe, and he and his wife were grossly discouraged. One day as he was having a Bible study, he stumbled upon the Bible character named Joseph in Genesis. The name Joseph means “God will add”. All of a sudden Joe started telling all his friends to stop calling him “Joe” and to start calling him “Joseph”. Every time he heard his full name, it was a reminder that God will add. And do you know, it was not long before his wife became pregnant and after ten years they have a child, and the child is doing well. This is an excellent testimony to the power of words in our lives. (Joel Osteen shared this story on February 5, 2005) Life and death are in the power of the tongue ~ Proverbs 18.21 Click To Tweet MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process purpose relationships respect restoration righteousness sex sin success temptation trials women Help us continue helping others! DONATE TODAY Share the goods! Monday, March 21st 2016 RELATED VERSES Genesis 39:2-3 (NKJV) The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the Lord was with him and...
Put Your Mask on First
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, March 14th 2016 Share the goods! When the emergency instructions are given before your flight takes off, the flight attendants tell you to put on your own mask first. And this message is sometimes reiterated for mothers with small children or people traveling with the elderly. Even though these instructions seem counter-intuitive, the fact of the matter is that if you help yourself first you’ll then be able to help others. As Christians we tend to judge others, but the bible tells us not to judge others; or we will be judged! We should also remove the log from our own eye before we try to remove the speck from our brother's. Click To Tweet So just as we’re told on the plane to put on our own mask first we should also remove the log from our own eye first before we try to remove the speck from our brother’s. The reason why folks aren’t experiencing more of God’s grace is because He’s looking at the standard that we’re applying to others and He is applying it to us. What goes around comes around. MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process purpose relationships respect restoration righteousness sex sin success temptation trials women Help us continue helping others! DONATE TODAY Share the goods! Monday, March 14th 2016 RELATED VERSES Matthew 7:1-5 (NKJV) Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge,...
Polished Gemstone
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, February 29th 2016 Share the goods! An unpolished gemstone looks no different from an ordinary piece of gravel. To polish it, you need three things: a rock tumbler, some abrasive grit, and at least one other stone. A rock tumbler is little more than a jar lying on its side atop a series of rollers. Inside the jar, you place some abrasive grit, the unpolished gemstone and at least one other stone . When the tumbler begins to roll, the rocks will slowly rise up the wall of the jar and then drop, crashing into one another over and over again. Each time they collide, the grit removes a tiny bit of the surface material on top of the gemstone. Each time they collide the stones become smoother and smoother but it’s a very slow process. What happens if you forget the abrasive grit? The stones will still collide, but without an abrasive grit, there is nothing to smooth the stones. They’ll continue to crash into each other and perhaps even chip or damage each other. However, the finished product will look no smoother than it did when you began. It’s not exactly pleasant to be the other rock in somebody else’s tumbler... Click To Tweet Think about it. Stone is struck thousands of time, but still isn’t polish. And you know what happens if you forget another stone? Absolutely nothing. The lone rock will tumble, but with nothing to strike against, it simply rises and falls. There will still be some abrasion as the stone bounces against the side of...
Green Pastures
Psalm 23:1-3 NKJV reads: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the path of righteousness for His name’s sake.
Fine Dining
Suppose you haven’t eaten all day, you’re super hungry. You select the best restaurant in town and then ask the waiter for the finest steak on the menu.
Daily Water
There are several ways to kill a plant. You can stab it, poke it, and tear it. Or, you can simply leave it alone, and without attention the planet will die. A plant requires care and attention for it to survive and thrive.