Posts tagged “Perseverance”
Choose your hard wisely
I’m not usually a fan of inspirational quotes, but this one has stuck with me: “Life will never be easy. It will always be…
What would Jesus say to you?
For the last 18 months or so, I’ve been speaking at churches and conferences on the topic of seeking Jesus in a noisy world….
My foot is slipping!
“When I said, ‘My foot is slipping,’ your unfailing love, Lord, supported me. When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy”…
How to suffer well
How do you hold on to your faith in God when life is falling apart? When you feel alone at school or devastated after…
God’s definition of excellence
I recently read a book on leadership written by Joe Sanfelippo, the 2019 national superintendent of the year, and a quote from a chapter…
Navigating the gray areas of life
I love being told what to do. Life would be so much easier if someone would tell me who I could hang out with,…
Stronger for tomorrow
Are you going through a difficult time? Are you asking why God is putting you through this? Is it hard to trust that God…
When you’re in the valley, think of the glory
Our lives, with rare exceptions, eventually pass through a valley—a difficult and wish-it-were-over season of life. Four big categories of such valleys come to…
Broken ribs
“You’re going to break the ribs,” he told us. “If you don’t hear the snap, crack, and pop—you’re not doing it right.” The CPR…
Christmas is more crazy than baby
It took me 41 years of celebrating the birth of Jesus to realize this truth: the Bible’s Christmas is more crazy than baby. Read…
Christ in the crazy
In my experience, most of us either have a crazy-busy Christmas or a crazy-hard Christmas. If you’re blessed with family and friends, a good…
God’s watch is the official timer
The ongoing joke with one of the instructors at my local gym is that he can’t tell time. When he says we have only…