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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SELF-DISCIPLINE WILL GUARD US FROM DISASTER AND HELP US ACHIEVE OUR POTENTIAL Many of us identify with Oscar Wilde who famously said, “I can resist anything but temptation.” But temptation needs to be resisted. That’s where self-discipline comes in. In last week's blog, we talked about the...
THE FREEDOM TO ACHIEVE OUR GREATEST POTENTIAL IN LIFE DEPENDS ON SELF-DISCIPLINE Someone once said, "In order to be free to sail the seven seas, you must make yourself a slave to the compass." This is because every freedom has a corresponding bondage, and every bondage has...
NAVY SEAL TRAINING APPLIED TO THE CHRISTIAN LIFE Navy SEAL training is among the most challenging military training in the world, involving six months of long, torturous runs in soft seashore sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, brutal obstacle courses, unending calisthenics,...
BE HAPPIER, BE HEALTHIER, MAKE A GREATER IMPACT This Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, a uniquely American holiday. Its origin was a "First Thanksgiving" celebrated by 53 pilgrims and 90 Native Americans in October 1621. It was a three-day feast for celebrating a...