• Open Your Heart To the Love of God

    “To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.” –William Temple I try really hard to [...]

  • Finding God In Tough Times – 7 Biblical Facts To Lean On When Things Get Tough

    Every Christian should expect trouble, persecution, hardship and tough times from time to time. The Bible promises us these things will come our way. However when you’re in the midst of that “stuff”, these 7 facts about God and why we’re here can help you re-align your life with His purpose and allow Him to carry you through the tough times of life.

  • How To Worship God – What Is God Worth To You?

    In my post last week entitled How To Live For God – 6 Practical Suggestions that Will Change Your Life, we looked at how God transforms us through living a disciplined life.  We saw that the spiritual disciplines put us in the perfect place for God to transform our lives. I do have a confession [...]

  • How To Live For God – 6 Practical Suggestions that Will Change Your Life

    “The first and best victory is to conquer self”
    Plato

    I’m gonna start this post out today with a quick exercise. Unfortunately for you it requires reader participation, but don’t worry, I’m not gonna ask you to stand and do jumping jacks or anything crazy. Just do me a favor.

  • How To Hear From God – Hearing the Voice Of God

    I’ve become convinced that we often ask God to lay out the entire plan of something and He in His infinite wisdom knows we either can’t comprehend or take it all in and so I believe He revealed to me in my life a simple strategy for difficult times when we are crying out for the full answer or full plan and He doesn’t seem to be complying. I believe sometimes He just wants us to focus on the next step. Here’s what He told me to do recently:

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  • How to Relate to Evil

    How to Relate to Evil

    Last night my daughter asked my wife and I some great questions about Satan. For example: why did God create someone so evil? didn’t God only create good things (in Genesis she pointed out that God looked at all He created and said “it is good”)? why doesn’t God just “get rid of” Satan? She [...]

    Apr 21, 2010 | 1 comment | View Post

  • What Does It Take To Waste Your Life?

    What Does It Take To Waste Your Life?

    We were designed to have one passion, and that this passion will lead us to the joy we all truly long for. The cost will be great. But the joy is worth any cost.

    Mar 03, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post

  • It’s Crazy…Isn’t It?

    It’s Crazy…Isn’t It?

    Have you ever felt like we were missing it?

    It’s crazy if you think about it. The God of the universe – the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles…galaxies and E-minor – loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what’s our typical response? We go to church, sing some songs and try not to cuss.

    Feb 27, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Radical Awakening – You Betchya

    Radical Awakening – You Betchya

    So I’m sifting through my email one day after I wrote the about page for this blog which attempts to describe why this blog exists; and that is: To help Christians who are hungry for more of God and are searching to find information that will disciple them and help them grow. To help wake [...]

    Feb 22, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post