Yesterday Debbie and I registered our son Evan for his first semester of college. Per his instructions. Evan is in Germany as a foreign exchange student, finishing his senior year of high school. He requested a pre-med biology major.
When we mentioned "pre-med" to the director of admissions, she said, "That's easy." Out came a single sheet of paper with four years worth of courses laid out; few slots ...
Personal management involves being attentive to how we are doing in each of the following areas:
Our relationship with the living God. Are we abiding in Christ? Do we remain yoked, growing in intimacy with the Father? Are we still in love with Jesus? Are we responsive to the stirrings of the Holy Spirit?
Our relationships with our spouse and children. Are we moving toward greater closeness and trust? Do we view our spouses and children as the first recipients of our Christlike love? Or do they always get the leftovers?
ARTICLE Why I Don't Set Goals People and institutions begin to corrode when fleshly zeal is tied to spiritual goals. Jack Hayford
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What are your primary goals for the immediate and long-range future?" The question came from the audience at one of our annual pastors' seminars.
"I have none," I replied.
Dubious stares and blank looks everywhere. I continued, "We never set goals—that is, in the sense of numerical targets, fund-raising drives, or enlargement campaigns. Our one goal is to build big people. Every effort goes into ...
A few years ago a low budget movie became a box office smash. The story line followed a boy who had a mysterious capacity to see what other people could not see—in this case seeing and interacting with people who weren't alive. The famous line in this movie, The Sixth Sense, was the boy's revelation, "I see dead people." It's eerie but quite memorable.
As you'll discover as you read through Rick Warren's, The Purpose Driven Life, worship through music is only a small portion of what true, biblical worship is all about.
Worship is the process of surrendering your entire life into God's hands. Everything you do can—and should—be an act of worship.
God designed us to worship Him with our whole lives, and there are actually spiritual habits ...
As the deer pants for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. Psalm 42:1
In the dog days of the sweltering summer when I was ten years old, my family drove across the Mojave Desert to go camping at the Grand Canyon. Our Chevrolet sedan had no air conditioning. The blacktop ahead of us softened in the heat, shimmering surrealistically.
Mom and Dad were up front, Dad driving; my three younger brothers ...
I can do everything with the help of Christ who gives me the strength I need. Philippians 4:13
As a new leader in ministry outside the local church, I was challenged, stretched, and often terrified. When a group of Pentecostal leaders from around the United States invited me to speak to them, I was both honored and nervous. To ease my jitters, I went in the night before I was due to speak, just to get ...
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