Saturday // Build :: Encouragement
Title: Your next opportunity But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today” – Hebrews 3:13a You have an opportunity to encourage someone today. Please don’t waste it. It’s so easy to put off an encouraging phone call and wait till we see them. We think, “I’ll see them soon…right?” Someone may be […]
Saturday // Build :: Invest
Title: Jesus Invested Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters – Colossians 3:23 Finger wagging “God is watching you…” type of approach to this passage, but let’s take a different angle. Have you ever had a boss at work for whom you would […]
Friday // Steel :: Passion
Title: Let Him In Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. – Deuteronomy 6:5 You can’t love someone without first letting them in — all the way. Too often, we keep people at arm’s length as a way to protect ourselves from pain and […]
Friday // Steel :: Truth
Title: Intimacy with Jesus Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. – John 8:32 Are you looking for freedom? Freedom from addiction? Maybe a sin in your life that you can’t make any sense of it? It’s crazy the things that we can get hooked on. They damage our […]
Sat // Build :: Authentic
Title: The Real Thing Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up. – Ephesians 4:29a What do you think it means to build someone up in an authentic way? Authentic means the real thing, not a counterfeit or imitation. It’s worth a lot, […]
Friday // Steel :: Integrity
Title: Do not deny your integrity Till I die, I will not deny my integrity. Job 27:5b I hope you aren’t having a day like Job. His story was crazy. If you didn’t know it, he lost everything: his wealth, his family, and even his health. He had a few friends left, but they accused […]
Wednesday // 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 it, but the more time we spend with someone, the more we act like them. It’s sort of like spending a week in Canada and coming back with a new accent. Eh? We were […]
Wednesday // 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 […]
Fri // Steel :: Example
Title: God will fill the gap Set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. – 1 Timothy 4:12b In the movie Glory, an enlisted man is promoted to an officer’s position. As the Colonel pinned on his stripes, the enlisted man looks to the Colonel and […]
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 sometimes struggle to grasp the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven. We are told, […]