Do you ever wake up in the morning and feel like, “Today, I will bring my “B” or “C" game. Yesterday was great but today will only be average”?
NOT THIS YEAR.
This is not an original statement with me. However, it has shaped my life greatly.
As you start into a new year, have you discovered the “why” behind all of your goals, planning, and purposes?
This subtle, simple shift can mean the difference between total life change and miserable failure.
“New” is not just a position on a calendar. It is a total frame of mind. It clears out all your mistakes. It opens up new possibilities for you and can reset your relationships.
During this holiday season, I like to spend time with the “5 F’s”: “friends, family, food, fishing, and football!”
I also like to take time to give thanks to God for one other “F”: Fellowship.
I’ve pastored long enough to know the mood swings of the holidays: cheer, euphoria, laughter and loneliness, regret, and depression.
Intentionality is so critical. Reactionary life never goes anywhere.
Why not be intentional about your plan for next year? I like to put a plan in place to have the best year ever.
How’s it going in your marriage? Are you drifting? Losing ground? Fearful of your future together?
We all love to evaluate.
People broke through doors, overturned displays, ran through aisles and pulled down televisions on to people’s heads and into a heap on the floor.
Black Friday. How did we go from “Seasons Greetings” to “Seasons Beatings?”
TRUST is affecting everything in your life: your leadership, marriage, business, parenting, and legacy.
Relationships get shallow and boring. We may live together but drift apart. We lose the excitement and energy we once had.
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).
America has gone out of control.
Civility, respect, and honor are disappearing. Anger, vitriol, and assault have become the norm.
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!
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.”
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.
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
