“Taking one for the team” is good as long as you’re on the right team. If you’re on the right team, why hold back? Throw yourself into helping your team win. If you’re not on the right team, why? Life is too short to waste time on trying to win at the wrong thing. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2019
This too shall pass…
Option 1: This too shall pass; therefore, I can endure it for another day. Option 2: This too shall pass; therefore, I must treasure each second of this day. Option 3: I too shall pass; therefore, I must live with eternity in view. The ONE THING for today: This too shall pass…which option will you … Continue reading
I trust you
When I was a teenager, I remember how my dad would trust me. Say I was sixteen and I was complaining about how my dad didn’t trust me (a common thing for sixteen-year-olds). Dad’s respond would often be, “O but son, I do trust you, I trust you to be sixteen.” I never came up … Continue reading
Hide your feelings
Ignoring your negative feelings and hiding them are not the same. By all means acknowledge your hurts, fears, and frustrations, but you don’t have to notify the world. The way you feel about something or someone today may be far different this time next year or even this time tomorrow. Settle for doing the right … Continue reading
A Track for Developing Disciples
Be careful with those rules!
A few rules are necessary, but they are extremely dangerous and must only be referred to or added to as a last resort. It’s important to realize what you’re doing when you invoke a rule that must be obeyed and observed: First, you are taking away all other choices for how something can be done, … Continue reading
Don't know what you're doing?
The question is not, “Do you know what you’re doing?” The question must always be, “Am I heading in the right direction?” Don’t let the great ones fool you. If they’re honest they’ll admit that much of the time they didn’t know what they were doing…but they did know where they wanted to go. They … Continue reading
