5 STEPS FOR REINTERPRETING FAILURE Have you ever felt like a failure? Have you ever failed so often, or so badly, or for so long that you have concluded that you are a failure? Have you ever felt as though God has forgotten you… that he...
WHAT YOU HAVE TO FIX BEFORE STARTING OVER We said last week that failure is more common than success, but that if dealt with effectively, failure can become a valued friend. We saw that the Bible tells us: We will all fail (James 3:2) We can recover...
IF WE LEARN FROM OUR FAILURES, WE CAN TURN THEM INTO VALUED FRIENDS Failure is more common than success. The planning floor of history is littered with failures, from modest to spectacular. On the modest end, the innovation department at McDonald's created some items you will never...
GOD DOES NOT INTEND FOR US TO LIVE WITH PROLONGED FEAR There are at least three basic things that we fear: Fear of death Fear of pain (such as disease or accident, either real or potential) Fear of loss (such as financial crises or other personal...
GOD WANTS US TO BE DEEPLY HAPPY IN LIFE...
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....
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;...
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...
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...
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...