20 Feb Is It All Right For a Christian to Want to Be Happy?
GOD WANTS US TO BE DEEPLY HAPPY IN LIFE...
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13 Feb Three Spiritual Warfare Tactics And How to Defend Against Them
IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS IN SPIRITUAL WARFARE As we saw last week, there are two kinds of spiritual warfare: Resistible and Non-resistible, which call for two different responses. This week we will look at the fact that the devil uses three different spiritual warfare tactics against Christians....
06 Feb Understanding the Two Kinds of Spiritual Warfare
TWO KINDS OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE CALL FOR TWO DIFFERENT RESPONSES One of most important mental shifts a Christian must make is the shift from living for the American Dream to fighting a spiritual battle. Life is not a waltz; it’s a war. It is not a playground;...
30 Jan If Meditation Is so Good for You, How Do You Do It?
MAYBE UNORTHODOX BIBLICAL MEDITATION WILL WORK FOR YOU! If you want to be more than you are, meditation is a gateway to mental renewal. That's the point I made in last week's blog post. However, someone might rightfully ask, "if meditation is so good for you, how...
23 Jan Why Don’t More Christians Take Meditation Seriously?
BIBLICAL MEDITATION IS THE GATEWAY TO MENTAL RENEWAL Scripture speaks clearly of the value of meditation. Psalm 1 promises that if we meditate on the Bible day and night, we will be “like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does...
16 Jan Repeat Truth Until It Changes You
IF SOMETHING IS IMPORTANT, IT NEEDS TO BE REPEATED UNTIL WE "OWN" IT Our brains were built to require repetition. If mental exposure to everything were permanent, our brains would be buried by an avalanche of irrelevant information. Can you imagine remembering every license plate you've...
09 Jan Releasing the Magic In Your Brain
SOMETHING MAGICAL HAPPENS IN THE BRAIN WHEN WE IMAGINE A FUTURE GOAL Many years ago, I sat in a classroom and heard master-teacher Howard Hendricks ask, “What do you want out of life? Are you willing to pay the price? Those questions changed my life. As a...
01 Jan Keys to a Happy New Year in 2018
HAVING A HAPPY NEW YEAR DEPENDS ON HAVING THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE As I did last week, I'm posting a day early this week in order to wish a Happy New Year to our blog readers from countries all over the world! There are three keys to having...
25 Dec Merry Christmas
FOR TO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY A SAVIOR WHO IS CHRIST THE LORD This blog post is coming to you a day early to wish a Merry Christmas to our blog readers from countries all over the world! C.S. Lewis once said, “Christianity, if false, is...
19 Dec Self-Discipline: the key to personal freedom! Part 3
WITH SELF-DISCIPLINE, MOST ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE Breakthrough Olympic Gold-medalist Jesse Owns said, “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes self-discipline.” President Theodore Roosevelt reinforced that idea when he said, “With self-discipline, most anything is possible.” Self-discipline is doing the...