Nine Heroes
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, August 28th 2017 Share the goods! Some years ago, in the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants who were all mentally challenged in some way assembled at the starting block for the 100-yard dash. At the gun, they all started out, not exactly with a dash, but with a relish to run the race and finish and win. All except one boy who once he started out in the race tumbled over the asphalt several times and began to cry. The other eight heard the boy cry. They slowed down and looked back. They all turned around and went back every single one of them. One girl with Down Syndrome bent down, kissed him, and said, “This will make it better.” All nine linked arms and walked across the finish line together. Everyone in the stadium cheered, this went on for minutes and people were still telling the story. Why? Because deep down we know this one thing; what matters in this life is more than just winning for ourselves. What truly matters in this life is helping others to win, even if it means slowing down and changing our course!!!! What truly matters in this life is helping others to win. 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, August 28th...
Oxford Crew
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, May 15th 2017 Share the goods! In the Oxford crew, you will see these men who are sweating and straining and their movements are incredibly synchronized as they pull the long oars through the water. What is interesting is that these men have their backs to the finish line. How do they pace themselves and how do they know when to sprint? The answer is simple they focus on the coxswain. He is the guy with a megaphone sitting at the end of the boat facing the crew. He is the only one who knows where the finish line is. So the men at the oars focus on him, listen to him, obey his commands, and count on him to coach them to the finish line. He will pace them, he will encourage them, and they trust in him implicitly to get them across the finish line in the strongest possible way. They are counting on the coxswain to enable them to finish strong. We must learn to do the same thing with Jesus Christ! We must learn to trust the leading of the Holy Spirit. 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, May 15th 2017 RELATED VERSES Isaiah 30:21 (NKJV) Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,...
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...
The Distance From Your Calling
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, October 31st 2016 Share the goods! In a renowned museum in Florence, Italy, you will find four renowned sculptures. Originally Michelangelo decided that they would be used on the tomb of Pope Julius, but midway through the project he decided not to use them. Today, anyone traveling to Florence can see the results – a hand protrudes here, a torso protrudes there, a leg, a part of a head, and none of them are finished. If you stand in this great hall you will sense the turmoil, the struggle involved in these great stones. It is as though the figures are crying to break free from the blocks of marble to become what they were intended to be. Michelangelo called these figures “Captives.” Study them for a time and they are certain to stir up within you the view of a deep longing for the stones to be what they could be. They may stir awareness in your own soul and an ache to break free from anything that is holding you down and preventing the realization of your own potential. Are we moving closer to the person God called us to be? Click To Tweet All of us as humans share a universal longing to be complete, to enjoy the fulfillment of realizing our God-given destiny. Like the Michelangelo statues, “Captives,” we are often frozen in our efforts to realize who we were meant to be. We never learn the secrets of chipping away at what holds us back; we never discover the parts of us that are still in...
Words & Beats
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, September 26th 2016 Share the goods! There was an amazing scientific study done some time ago that attempted to illustrate the power of words. The scientists put water in different jars and labeled the jars with certain words on the outside labels. One container was labeled love. Another container was labeled hate, and another was labeled patience. What is interesting is that after some time had passed, the scientists checked the molecular structure of the water inside the containers and discovered to their amazement the molecular structure had changed!!! This is so deep because if we as people are made of 90% water, then words must have a significant impact on us as people!!! There is power in the words we speak. Click To Tweet This is very similar to the demonstration done to prove the impact of music on plants. There were three different rooms, one containing plants that played classical music, another with plants and no music, and a third that had plants and heavy metal being played. What was discovered was that the plants with the classical music grew above average. The plants with no music grew at an average rate, and the plants with hip hop/heavy metal music grew but at a rate below average. What the research uncovered was that classical music is played to a cadence that has a pattern or strong weak, strong weak – which is similar to how we breathe as humans. They discovered that heavy metal music had a pattern of weak strong, weak strong. This pattern was discovered to be...
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...
In My Father’s Shoes
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, August 29th 2016 Share the goods! The goal of discipleship is to have someone step in our shoes and pave new territories. This is the beauty of daddy’s little boy clomping down the stairs with a pair of his father’s shoes; that picture is a nostalgic one. What men do not realize is that someday their son will fill shoes in the way life was modeled for them. This is deep because at best, a father will have 15 years to model the behavior for his sons, and the first eight years are the most important. This is why it is so important to realize that children model what they see, and they will model what is displayed at home. Children model what they see, and they model what is displayed at home. Click To Tweet This is profound because there isn’t a curriculum to teach children how to treat people with dignity and affection. In other words, you cannot diagram dignity and affection. You cannot diagram respect, forgiveness, or servanthood. This is not found in any encyclopedia that I know of, but it must be put in motion. It is so important what a father models, so if he makes statements like, “Those dumb police are always trying to stop speeders with their radar! Why don’t they take the time to try to catch people who are breaking into homes?!” Or statements like, “All of Washington is full of hypocrites and idiots and the man in the Whitehouse is the biggest one of all.” They start planting seeds of anti-government...
It’s in the Blood
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, August 22nd 2016 Share the goods! There is power in a bloodline. People suffer from low self-esteem because they do not know the power of the bloodline that they come from. The study of horses reveals some interesting things… A thoroughbred horse is bred from the purest and best blood. They are referred to as “Blood Horses.” Approximately 300 years has been invested in the development of their bloodline, also referred to as the horse’s stock. The people responsible for protecting the bloodline are known as “Blood Stock Agents.” When a “Blood Stock Agent” is looking to purchase a colt, a baby horse, he is not concerned with its physical characteristics; he only wants to know one thing: what is its bloodline. The colt’s worth and purchasing price are not dependent on its achievements but on the victories that have been won in its bloodline. The Blood Stock Agent knows that in spite of how feeble the weak-kneed colt looks as it stumbles around while trying to stand up for the first time, it is going to stand in the winner’s circle one day because it has the blood of champions. A complete analysis is done of the mare and the stallion before breeding. First, the horse’s physical attributes are studied: stride, leg length, foot strike, angles of the ankles, and size of the lungs. Then the attributes of the bloodline are taken into consideration: who are the ancestors, what did they go through, what are their accomplishments, and what are their measurements. Every ancestor on both sides is researched and...
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....
No Fire No Lift
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, August 1st 2016 Share the goods! We have all watched a space shuttle lift off from planet Earth, making its way into outer space, into the heavens. What is deep about this is that the space shuttle sits on a launch pad ready to move into a whole other realm. However, the space shuttle is going nowhere until a fire has been ignited. A blazing fire that allows it to overcome the gravitational pull of the earth and delivers it to the glory of the heavens. If there is no fire, there is no lift-off. No fire means no destiny. What is keeping us from getting off the ground and getting to the mission? Click To Tweet Now, back to the launch pad. The countdown begins and by the time they hit zero and the boosters are ignited, it is ready for take-off into outer space. For most Christians, they have been Earthbound too long. No matter how many times we have decided to “lift off” into our respective missions, we do not seem to be able to get off the ground. What is keeping us from getting off the ground and getting to the mission? The countdown has begun – clearly apparent because we are all getting older by the day. That shuttle is going absolutely nowhere until a fire has been ignited. No fire, no lift off. No fire, no destiny. The countdown is approaching zero. MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity...
Don’t Void The Warranty
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, January 25th 2016 Share the goods! Many products we purchase today come with a warranty. In some cases, we can buy an extended warranty which guarantees that the manufacturer will stand behind the product it if fails, but there are limitations. A manufacturer will cover a product if there’s a flaw in the manufacturing process, but not if you abuse the product. If you use your Dell computer in the shower and it stops working, you obviously cannot take it back to Dell. God has a warranty for your life as long as you are using it for His purpose. Click To Tweet When a manufacturer honors a warranty the assumption is that you’re using the product for its intended purpose, and it’s the same way with God. God has a warranty for your life as long as you are using it for His purpose. If your life is off purpose and out of whack and it seems like God is not answering your prayers, the question you have to ask is, “Am I using my life for His purpose?” 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, January 25th 2016 RELATED VERSES Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,...
Don’t Give Up
When pilots are taught to fly they undergo rigorous training in flight simulators and have to learn and memorize all manner of flight maneuvers.
Instrument Panel
Vertigo is defined as a sensation of dizziness, with a feeling that you are being whirled about in your environment. The term “vertigo” is sometimes used when training people to fly, especially when they learn to fly using instruments without being able to see where they’re going.
Crickets in the City
Whose voice are you listening to? 1 Corinthians 14:10 KJV reads, “There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.” There are many voices in the world, says the apostle Paul, but never have there been so many as are heard today.
Grocery List
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, November 16th 2015 Share the goods! When you go grocery shopping on an empty stomach and without a shopping list, almost everything looks especially attractive, and your shopping cart ends up filled with too many snacks and not enough nutrition. And when the cashier rings up your items and announces your total you’re in a state of shock! The worst part is that then you start to rationalize the amount of money you spent but still didn’t get the items you needed! The object of a grocery list is to purchase a nutritionally balanced diet for your family. Shopping without a list encourages the likelihood of purchasing the wrong food. Similarly if we don’t establish priorities in our lives and choose wisely, we’ll wind up making decisions without thinking–just because a particularly opportunity looks attractive. We’ll wind up piling things in to the baskets of our lives just like when we’re in a well-stocked grocery store and we shop without a list. The object of setting priorities is to allocate our time and money according to God’s desires. But too often we choose our priorities with the same lack of foresight as our trips to the grocery store, and the things that we give priority to are simply not what we need–or importantly, what God wants!! According to Webster’s, “a priority is something to which we give precedence by assigning a degree of urgency or importance to it.” If we don't establish priorities in our lives, we'll wind up making decisions without thinking. Click To Tweet Most men haven’t set or...
Like a Space Shuttle
As it relates to the space shuttle, experts will tell you that maintaining proper orbit is a delicate affair. To maintain proper orbit, the onboard computers constantly make course and altitude corrections.
The Computer in Your Mind
When you first started using a computer you quickly learned a universal truth: if you enter wrong data, you’ll get wrong data. But if you enter correct data, you’ll get correct data. Computer pioneers called this, “GIGO” or “garbage in; garbage out.”
Off Course Sailing
Charting a course for your life without a plan and a personal mission statement is like sailing on the ocean without a compass.
Til He Comes
There was much rejoicing, and when the news media asked the little girl how she’d floated for such a long time, she made the most riveting statement. She said, “I was just doing what my father told me until he came back.”
Baggy Pants
In recent years, especially in urban areas, we’ve seen lots of young people wearing baggy pants. What’s deep is that wearing pants in this style originated in prison. An inmate would wear his pants baggy and low, dropping off his waist to indicate to the other men that he was available for sex.
Finding Kitty
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, March 13th 2017 Share the goods! When you know what I know, no amount of investment is too much. A couple had a cat. The women loved the cat, but the husband hated it. One day, the wife went on vacation. She said, “Honey, take care of my cat!” Well, he did not like the cat when the wife was home, he certainly would not like the cat now that she was gone. So he took the cat, put the cat in a bag, tied the bag, and threw it into the sea. The wife came home and said, “Honey, where is the cat???” The husband told her that the cat was gone. They looked for weeks and weeks but found nothing. The woman was distraught. The husband said, “I love you so much, I know the cat is only worth $100, but I am going to place an ad in the newspaper for $5000 to anybody who finds the cat.” The wife responded, “Oh sweetheart, the fact that you would put up that much money for a cat because of your love for me is amazing.” So the man put the ad in the newspaper, and one of his friends came to him and said, “Bill you are going to place an ad in the paper and offer that much money just to find a cat???” The man responded, “When you know what I know, no amount of investment is too much.” When you're in the know, no amount of investment is too much. Click To Tweet MORE TOPICS addiction...
The Tour Guide
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, March 6th 2017 Share the goods! When you go to a foreign country, it is great to have a map that shows you where to go. But you know what is even better than a map? A tour guide. The Holy Spirit wants to be your tour guide “showing” you where God wants you to go and how to give birth to the man or women He created you to be. The ministry of the Holy Spirit is to constantly keep speaking to you about your future. The enemy’s agenda is to keep reminding you of painful memories from your past. When satan tries to bring up memories; remind him of his future and let him know that he is not going to like the temperature setting of the place he is destined to go. Isaiah 54:4: “Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.” Notice how the scripture keeps addressing the issue of shame. This is because there is a tendency for the painful mistakes of the past to have shame associated with them. When satan tries to bring up memories; remind him of his future... 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...
Let Go and Fly
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, January 2nd 2017 Share the goods! There was a family of birds that was teaching their young to fly. The young swallows were perched on a dead branch over a lake. One of the adult swallows got alongside the chicks and started pushing them to the end of the branch. They pushed until finally one of the birds fell off. Somewhere between the branch and the water that was 4 feet below, the wings started to work, and the bird took off on its own. The second one did the same exact thing, but the third one was not to be bullied. As it started to fall off it grabbed the branch with its foot. But the parent was not sentimental; it peaked at the poor chick’s foot until it was more painful to fall than it was to hang on than deal with the insecurities of flying. The grip was released and the inexperienced wings started to pump. The mature swallow knew what the little chick did not and that is it would fly, and there was no danger in making it do what it was designed to do. Birds have feet, but flying is their characteristic action. What were you designed to do? Click To Tweet They are not fulfilled until they are flying, doing what they were born to do gracefully and with action. Here is a question: what were you designed to do? What are you trying to hang onto that is preventing you from living to your potential? Like the little swallow, what are you hanging...
Don’t Limit Yourself
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, December 26th 2016 Share the goods! Ivy Grandstrom is a 77-year-old grandmother from Vancouver, British Columbia who recently signed up for the 10-kilometer run, 800-yard run, 1500 meter, and 500 meter run in the world veteran games that take place in Eugene, Oregon. Ivy’s real specialty is not in running, but in beating the odds. You see, she is not only 77 years old, but she is totally blind. She has run competitively for the last 14 years and although she started running in handicapped races, she has started running recently in sighted races and has also run in the USA and Canada Masters Meets. She runs with her longtime friend, Paul Hoeberigs, with a surgical cloth tied to their wrist. Paul runs alongside Ivy and guides her through the race. She has fallen down many times, but she never stays down for long and she has never started a race that she has not finished. Ivy is a 77-year-old blind runner. Usually, the only thing that stops us from accomplishing the things that we set out to do is our own limitations! Usually, the only thing that stops us from accomplishing the things that we set out to do is our own limitations. 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!...
Frogs In Cream
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, December 19th 2016 Share the goods! Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. The sides were so slick that they could not climb out of it. The frogs had to paddle and paddle just to stay alive; this went on and on for a long time. One frog got so tired that he gave up. He said, “We are never going to get out of here, we’re wasting our time!” He quit, and sunk to the bottom of the bowl. The other frog was more determined; he did not want to quit, so he kept paddling and paddling. A little more time passed, and he noticed that the consistency of cream was changing: it got thicker and thicker. This made the paddling more difficult to do, but the frog refused to quit. Before long, the cream turned to butter, and the frog was able to step out of the butter and walk away. We need to have the same attitude in our lives sometimes. Where there seems to be no way out, let’s keep pressing on and not quit. Keep the faith, and God will honor it! Where there seems to be no way out, let's keep pressing on and not quit. 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,...
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...
The Good Steward
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, June 13th 2016 Share the goods! The job of a steward is to protect and expand the resources of another. When you put your money in the bank you do it for two reasons, to protect it, and to grow, or expand it. It’s a lot harder for a thief to get to your money out of the bank than from under your pillow. And depositing our money in the bank means that if you leave it there it will gain interest and expand and after a certain amount of time you’ll have more money than you deposited. So to be a good steward over something you want to protect and expand. This is why in the Parable of the Talents the first two men immediately went out to start getting a return and endeavored to maximize God’s resources. But the third guy essentially did nothing; he buried his talent in the ground where the money couldn’t even gain interest. The job of a steward is to protect and expand the resources of another. Click To Tweet So in our everyday lives we must invest what God has given us and get interest on it. God wants more out of your life, just as a baby grows to become a full adult. When parents invest in the life of a child it’s because they want the child to become all he/she can be. The key to life is to give back to God everything He gave you, but He wants it back with interest. If He gives you groceries, God wants...
Save Your Work
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, May 16th 2016 Share the goods! God is the great computer. When you get born again, He gives you a new life, sort of like a new word document, when we open a new file. You can then begin to write the new story of your life. Every now and then, the computer will prompt you with a question. “Do you want to save your work?” Your choices are Yes, No, or Cancel. In some cases, if you Cancel, it means give me a little more time. But at the end of every man’s life every file is closed. Every time you click “Close” you get asked the question, “Do you want to save your work?” Will you hear "Well done!" at the end of your life on earth? Click To Tweet The goal of every man is to spend his days opening files and working. So that when we come to the end of our lives, and we are asked, do you want to save your work, because we have used the time to glorify God, our answer can be YES!! Here is the question that every man has to ask himself, do you want to save your work? Are you living the kind of life that you would be proud to say, “Yes, I want to save my work for God to review!” 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...
Blast Off
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, March 7th 2016 Share the goods! We have all watched a space shuttle lift off from planet earth and soar into outer space and into the heavens. What’s deep is that space shuttle sits on a launch pad and is ready to move into another realm, but it can’t go anywhere until the fire at its base has been ignited. There’s a countdown and when it hits zero the boosters are ignited and the shuttle takes off into space. A blazing fire takes it from the gravitational pull of the earth and delivers it to the glory of the heavens. Most Christians have been earthbound too long, and unable to get their missions off the ground. Click To Tweet But if there’s no fire; there’s no ignition, and no destiny. Most Christians have been earthbound too long, and unable to get their missions off the ground. In the meantime a countdown is in effect because we’re growing older day by day. But when we are set on fire by the Holy Spirit, when He ignites us on the inside, we will have blast off and we will soar! 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 7th 2016 RELATED VERSES Luke 3:16 (NKJV) John answered, saying to all, “I indeed baptize you with...
Life of an Acorn
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, February 15th 2016 Share the goods! Have you ever seen an oak tree surrounded by fallen acorns? If you step on an acorn it cracks easily, but the oak tree that grows from its seed is almost indestructible. The oak tree is much harder than its seed and compared to the acorn looks and feels very different and is made of a very different substance. The acorn is weak and the tree is powerful; the acorn is fragile and the tree is nearly indestructible. But you have to plant the weaker acorn before the stronger tree can grow. The goal of the Christian life is for the inward man to swallow and dissolve the outward man. Click To Tweet Catch this: the tree does not come from the shell of the seed; it comes from inside of the seed. What releases the power inside of the seed is the death of the shell. When a seed is planted in the ground, the shell dissolves, releasing the life on the inside into the soil and the substance of the tree is created from the inside, not the shell of the seed. So what happens is the inner part of the seed swallows up the outer part of the seed and a whole new substance comes out of the ground called a tree. Likewise we are seeds. The goal of the Christian life is for the inward man to swallow and dissolve the outward man. This will happen completely when Jesus returns, but our goal is for this to happen now here on...
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.
Around the World
John Stephen Akhwari was a Tanzanian marathon runner in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. Like all of the other athletes, John trained rigorously and was looking forward to running appearing in the Olympic Games.
