Full Blog — Larry Stockstill

TRUST is affecting everything in your life: your leadership, marriage, business, parenting, and legacy.

What are the main areas that make people trust you?

Nov 11

Nov 11 3 Simple Thoughts That Will Energize all Your Relationships

Relationships get shallow and boring. We may live together but drift apart. We lose the excitement and energy we once had.

You can ENERGIZE every relationship with three simple principles:

Nov 4

Nov 4 5 Qualities I Look For in the Greatest Leaders

Everybody leads something: their family, their children, their business, their community their church…or themselves.

Paul spoke about “faithful leaders.” He listed their 5 greatest qualities to his spiritual son, Timothy (2 Tim. 2).

Check out how you measure up:

Oct 28

Oct 28 7 Rules on How to Have a Good Disagreement

America has gone out of control.

Civility, respect, and honor are disappearing. Anger, vitriol, and assault have become the norm.

Here are my 7 rules on how to have a good disagreement:

Oct 21

Oct 21 Why Your Husband's Greatest Need is to be Respected

As I talk to men around the country, most of their marriage issues center around one word: “respect.” They perceive that their wife’s words are demeaning and they go into shutdown mode.

As a husband of 42 years, let me give you my thoughts on why this is and how to repair that tension!

Oct 14

Oct 14 A Wife Wants a Husband to be Strong for Her

I have often wondered, “What does a wife really need in a husband?”

She may have money, children, clothes, and a home…and yet still feel a deep need.

Husbands, I think I can help you with one word: “strength.”

Oct 7

Oct 7 Think of Grace as Your Last Minute Reprieve

Devotion

Some see grace as your constant “get out of jail free” pass. We all do, of course, need grace day-by-day for all our failures and shortcomings.

Sep 30

Sep 30 Marriage is the Greatest School of Character

We all need to make changes. Often, we can’t even see what needs to be changed about ourselves. That’s where marriage comes in.

“If I will let Him, God will work through my spouse to change me into a far better person.”

Sep 23

Sep 23 God Has an Amazing Plan in Mind for Your Marriage

Staying together in marriage is not easy. It requires extreme patience, empathy, and understanding.

I have found the #1 rule for long-term marriage: “Never doubt God’s wisdom in putting you together.”

Here is how that plays out in real life:

Sep 16

Sep 16 Do These 6 Secrets When You Feel Like Quitting

People are quitting too easily. They quit a difficult marriage. They quit a job. They quit a hard task. Anyone can start and have a “honeymoon” but it takes a certain mentality to stay and finish the job.

I love the Message translation of 2 Cor. 4:1—“…don’t throw up your hands and walk off the job because you run into occasional hard times.”

Here are my 6 secrets to “hanging in there…”:

Sep 9

Sep 9 The Seven Lamps of the Spirit and How They Transform Your Life

Devotion

I was always puzzled to read in the Book of Revelation about the “seven lamps of the Spirit” before the throne.

I finally figured out what they are: aspects of the Spirit’s work in your life.

Here they are and what they practically can do in your life:

Sep 1

Sep 1 The High Cost of Anxiety and How to Overcome it

The suicide of an apparently successful, talented, and influential 30-year-old pastor near Los Angeles this week has stunned American Christian leadership.

David faced unthinkable pressure. He wrote his deepest psalms while living under intense pressure and anxiety.

Here are a few important thoughts to remember about anxiety and pressure:

Aug 24

Aug 24 How to Defeat the Challenge of Grief and Regret

Grief and regret are the twin prongs of paralysis. If you can change it, change it. If you can’t change it, move past it.

How do you defeat the challenge of grief and regret?

Aug 18

Aug 18 How to Keep the Bridge of Life Strong and Stable

This week a bridge suddenly collapsed in Genoa, Italy. That’s not supposed to happen. Bridges don’t collapse.

Leaders are not supposed to collapse, either.

Here is how I look at life's “bridges” that suddenly fall:

Aug 12

Aug 12 How to Change Your Pain into Purpose

Pain is real. Everyone feels it.

How can you turn your pain into purpose?

Aug 5

Aug 5 You Can Walk Your Way to Confidence

It’s true: Most of us don’t exercise.

We talk about it, think about it, and hear about it. The problem is, it is still a million miles away from us doing it.

I think I can help you with that.

Jul 29

Jul 29 Stand Up Tall and Look Your Problems in the Eye

can look at some people and see defeat. They look like they have lost: Head down, shoulders slumped, eyes down.

How do you overcome your problems? Stand up straight and look them in the eye.

Jul 22

Jul 22 How I Follow the Holy Spirit

Devotion

I’ve been a Christian for over 55 years and a pastor for 40 years. If I could tell you one of my greatest secrets of success, it would be learn to stay in step with the Holy Spirit.

How do we walk with Him?

Jul 15

Jul 15 7 Steps to Oppression and How to Find Amazing Freedom