Fri // Steel :: Integrity
Title: The Test I will not deny my integrity. – Job 27:5b My son looked over my shoulder and asked: “What is integrity?” Have you ever tried explaining it?It took me a bit to line up my thoughts. I told my son, “Something with integrity won’t break easily, so if we are talking about a […]
Mon // Surrender :: Control
Title: Hurt my Pride Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; – Proverbs 3:5 I was in an unfamiliar grocery store looking for coffee. Usually, it’s somewhere close to the cereal and other breakfast stuff, but it just wasn’t there. I must have taken five or six […]
Sun // Sacrifice :: Worship
Title: Live for Him Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Romans 12:1 Sacrifice was common place in first century Jewish culture and it was done as an act of worship. […]
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 marriages dissolved, or their […]
Tue // Fueled :: Word
Title: Make Time For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. – Hebrews 4:12 High octane jet fuel. We aren’t talking about the cheap stuff. The Word of God fuels […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fri // Steel :: Integrity
Title: Own your integrity I will not deny my integrity. – Job 27:5b An interesting way to put it is that you can see an extremely high level of resolve in this sentence. There’s no question whether he has integrity. Job has integrity, and he owns it. He seems to take hold of it as […]
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 to […]