Pre-Thanksgiving Question: How Important Is It?
With four days to go until Thanksgiving, I’m coming in hot today with one question that I’m challenging you to consider before you get lost in the kitchen for the next few days cooking or before you pack to leave town. Today’s question: How Important Is It? Holidays...
The Blessing of Being Grateful in Hard Times
It’s the first week in November – which means that some of you have already started watching Hallmark Christmas movies and drinking your peppermint mochas. I like to hold out until after I finish Thanksgiving dinner. Isn’t there a commandment that says Thou shalt not...
God Is Not Surprised Or Stressed These Days…
I saw a phrase on Instagram last week that caught my attention: empathetic distress. Psychologist Adam Grant, who is one of my favorite personal development thinkers, explained that empathetic distress is when we see someone hurting and we feel are unable to help....
Saying Less to Let God Do More in Your Loved Ones’ Lives
Have you ever sensed that God was moving you out of the way so that He could work in someone else’s life? Let me tell you a story… Last Monday, I woke up with a cold. By late afternoon, I could barely speak. By evening, my voice was gone. Just like that....
Is Letting Go Hard for You? Three Powerful, Encouraging Verses for You Today!
Do you have trouble letting go of control? When there’s something that I really want, there is a temptation to engage in what I call the SHINE Control-Loving Behaviors in my Surrendered: Letting Go and Living Like Jesus Bible study: Stonewalling – Digging our...I’m so glad that you’re here!
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