You can be assured that the inciting events call for you to sacrifice your comfort and ease in order for your story to move forward. It's easy to ignore such inciting events...It's easy to flee your s...
Tendency
A simple person must be encouraged to see the Christian life as a war, not only with the world, the devil, and the flesh, but with God Himself.
Joy must be chosen, but the deeper conundrum is that it can't be controlled or cajoled as to when it will come or how long it will stay.
Shalom is shattered by sin, by the intrusion of a lie, a distortion of the truth that mars the pleasure of being naked, transparent, trusting and true.... shattering occurs when our dignity os assault...
Marriage requires a radical commitment to love our spouses as they are, while longing for them to be what they are not yet. Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward d...
Repentance is an internal shift
Perhaps a better explanation for why it's so difficult to feel our feelings is that ALL emotion, positive or negative, opens the door to the nature of reality. All of us prefer to avoid pain -- but ev...
Lust almost always becomes perverse.
Self-doubt is common when our efforts fail to bring results. Failure is a rock in our shoe that nags us until we find relief. At first, failure to achieve our desired end will elicit careful scrutiny...
To enter the realm of play, we must give ourselves to something or someone and turn away from all else. It is both a pledge and a betrayal.
Abundance is not about possession; it is utterly, completely, and solely about gratitude.
Stands
Hope is not mere optimism; rather, it is moving forward in anticipation of redemption in spite of the improbability of rescue.
God's passion is to rig the world so that we are compelled to deal with whatever blocks us from being like His glorious Son.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.5
We are what we choose. And we choose whatever our deepest passion compels us to be and to do. To understand the truth of this simple principle, we must examine choice’s power to shape our character.
The absence of tumult, more than its presence, is an enemy of the soul. God meets you in your weakness, not in your strength. He comforts those who mourn, not those who live above desperation. He reve...
So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.
In our perceived source of life. It is recognizing that our self-protective means to avoiding hurt have not ushered us into real living (the reckless abandon to God that ultimately leads to a deep sen...
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