Wed // Grit:: Resolve
Title: When We Serve As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. – Joshua 24:15 When I was a little boy, I loved to work on cars with my dad. My contributions at first were no more than fetching tools and cold drinks for him. As I grew into my teenage years, […]
Tue // Fuel :: Wisdom
Title: What Wisdom Provides Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse. – Proverbs 2:12 Wisdom, as Christian men in our faith walk and everyday life to be true to the word, we must understand the Wisdom of God’s word. Remembering the Bible verses is good, but […]
Mon // Surrender :: Idols
Title: Real Relationship Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them. – Jonah 2:8 Idols get in the way of our relationship with God. Idols often times are often used to try and fill a void in our lives. God is jealous, but for a good reason. God does not want to share our hearts with any idol, not because he […]
Sun // Sacrifice :: Exalt
Title: Valuable lesson For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. – Matthew 23:12 This verse reminds me of a Little League all-star game I saw back in the ’80s. A good friend of mine was having a pretty good at-bat against a tough pitcher. The count was in […]
Sat // Build :: Encouragement
Title: Be deliberate Encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today” – Hebrews 3:13a Today is all we have with those that we love. And the frequency of it can facilitate a mundane response. Do your wife, kids, and co-workers see you as someone who encourages them? Can they point to a moment […]
Fri // Steel :: Example
Title: Seek Him and seek others Set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. – 1 Timothy 4:12b Being a REAL man is not easy. Men of God are held to a high standard. We are responsible for making sure we seek God ourselves and THEN setting an […]
Thu // Warrior :: Battle
Title: Multiple battles For the battle is not yours, but God’s – 2 Chronicles 20:15c I was speaking with a friend this week, and we were catching up, and soon, the conversations went to a real level. We started talking about what was beating us up, and we soon realized it was many of the same […]
Wed // Grit :: Perseverance
Title: Sturdy Perseverance Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us… – Hebrews 12:1c Sometimes we don’t understand our trials or struggles at the moment, and sometimes we feel like failures. But as time goes by, we can reflect on those trials and see God’s work in them. It’s during times when we […]
Tue // Fuel :: Spirit
Title: Fuel Up So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. – Galatians 5:16 We all have our own personal Spiritual fuel tanks, and we pick and choose what goes in the fuel tank. We all know what happens if fuel (petrol) gets contaminated. It affects the entire performance […]
Mon // Surrender :: Pride
Title: Good Pride/Bad Pride “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall – Proverbs 16:18 We all have pride. Be sure not to label all pride as bad. There is good pride in good things (being proud of your kids, for example). The warning of pride here is the empty kind. A haughty spirit is a heart that is overinflated and infatuated with oneself. […]