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.
Jason Koeppe is a worshiper. For the past 10 years he's been leading contemporary worship in Vineyard churches in central Ohio and can't wait for the day that God opens the door to lead His people into worship vocationally! He now lives in a suburb in Cleveland, OH with his beautiful wife, 2 amazing kids, 2 wonderful dogs, and 2unbelievably noisy guinea pigs.
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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.
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This is passage of scripture that lays out a detailed blueprint of HOW to keep Christ in Christmas. It’s a blueprint of how to worship God. And as we see how to worship the Lord more authentically, I hope you’ll see that genuine worship is the only real way to keep Christ in Christmas and joy in your life!
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:
Have you ever been stirred deep within your spirit?
Now what I’m asking here is not the same thing as having a deeply emotional experience (either positive or negative), so getting jacked up at a conference where the worship and preaching were awesome doesn’t count. No, I mean stirred to action; stirred to change; stirred to boldness like never before in your life? And not in a way that brought guilt or shame either…but in an encouraging, uplifting and empowering way?
How I Started To Want To Know God More…And Why You Should Care
A little over 2 weeks ago, this blog came into being and my first post was born. But if we go back a bit before then, it will help lay the foundation for what God has been doing in my life and how you can recognize it when He does similar things for you.