Mon // Surrender :: Control
Title: God is trustworthy Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. – Proverbs 3:5 How do you trust God? What types of things do you trust Him with? Your job? Your health? Your marriage? I have known too many people who have lost jobs, their marriage dissolved, or their […]
Wed // Grit : Character
Title: Influence or Influenced Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” – 1 Corinthians 15:33 We don’t like to admit, but the more time we spend with someone, the more we act like them. Sort of like spending a week in Canada and coming back with a new accent. Eh? We were made by […]
Fri // Steel :: Integrity
Title: Own your integrity I will not deny my integrity. – Job 27:5b An interesting way to put it; in this sentence, you can see an extremely high level of resolve. There’s no question whether he has integrity. Job has integrity, and he owns it. He seems to take hold of it as if it […]
Wed // Grit :: Influence
Title: Long List Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. – 1 Cor 11:1 Have you taken one of those quick ten-question goofy personality tests on the internet? Based on our answers, we are told that we are: an introvert, best suited for life in the Deep South, or if we were […]
Fri // Steel :: Example
Title: Not task work Set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. – 1 Timothy 4:12b Part of my job is sales. When I first started, I wasn’t perfect. I thought I was a burden to the people I was selling to and just being bothersome. […]
Mon // Surrender :: Pride
Title: Don’t take the quick payoff Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. – Proverbs 16:18 I listen to a lot of sports talk radio. Probably too much. A discussion that comes up regularly starts with a question like this, “If you were a star athlete, would you take less money to […]
Wed // Grit :: Influence
Title: Be an example Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. – 1 Corinthians 11:1 What are some ways you can be an example today? Better yet, what is some ways you can be a Christ-like example? When I think about Jesus, I think about his humility. I think about his willingness […]
Sun // Sacrifice :: Exalt
Title: Step Back For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. Matthew 23:12 Did you notice? Jesus is prophesying here. In this passage, Jesus is talking about the teachers and Pharisees how they like to be important and have respect. Jesus reminds people to listen to him […]
Wed // Grit :: Perseverance
Title: Questions of life And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. – Hebrews 12:1c Have you ever been in a long race? There’s a point in a race when you begin asking yourself questions. “Why in the world did I do this” or, “Can I finish this thing?” It’s almost […]
Sat // Build :: Kingdom
Title: Did you catch all that? But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. – Matthew 6:33 We talk about the kingdom in church like we know it well. But do we? I find it hard to grasp the kingdom of God or the Kingdom of heaven at […]