Despite all the negative things that can be said about the holiday season, there is still a wonderful opportunity for encouragement, healing, and renewal whenever families gather together. Sadly, this potential generally goes untapped in favor of opening old wounds, indulging our appetites, and maxing out our credit cards. It reminds me of something C.S. Lewis observed, “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.”
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Thought for the Day – Missed Opportunities
Posted in Christmas, Commentaries, Opinions, Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged C.S. Lewis, family gatherings, holiday season, opening old wounds on December 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Thought for the Day – Going for the Win
Posted in Commentaries, Opinions, Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged character, integrity, success in life, trophies, victory, winning, winning percentage on December 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »
There is a significant difference between getting the win and attaining victory. If the price of the win is our character, integrity and maybe even a bit of our humanity, I would suggest that we’ve missed “victory” all together. At the end of our lives, our winning percentage, or the number of trophies on our shelf, will not be the ultimate measure of our success. While we can rationalize that the ends somehow justify the means, the means we chose to gain those ends says everything about who we really are.
Thought for the Day – Running on Empty
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes on November 23, 2016| 1 Comment »
I’ve noticed that it is on the mornings when I wake up with a little energy that I try to power through the day in my own strength, and that it is in those times when I feel like I have nothing in the tank that I reach out for God’s hand. So this morning, as I consider the meagerness of what I’ve found in my basket, I bring it before the Lord and pray that He would multiply these few loaves and fishes into whatever this day requires. Indeed, when I am weak, He is strong.
Thought for the Day – Mission Statement
Posted in Commentaries, Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged character of Jesus, heart of Jesus, personal connection to Jesus on November 1, 2016| Leave a Comment »
If the mission is to help people forge a connection to the person of Jesus Christ, there is perhaps nothing more damaging to that cause than to misrepresent His heart and character to them.
Thought for the Day – The Path to Repentance
Posted in Commentaries, Heart of "The Father", Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged amazing grace, good news, judgement to come, repentance, sinners on October 30, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Jesus did not publicly shame, threaten, or otherwise coerce people to come to repentance, which is why our efforts to do so “in Jesus name” only serve to drive them away from Him. The good news of the gospel is not the judgement to come, it is that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, and that this amazing grace is still available today.
Thought for the Day – Having a Good Day
Posted in Commentaries, Opinions, Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged afraid, circumstance, disappointed, frustrated, good day, hurt, mad, sad on August 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »
We should not expect a “good day” to run through the obstacle course of our circumstance and find us. Indeed, it is incumbent upon us to press through the crowd of impediments and apprehend it. Every day comes with an armload of reasons to be sad, mad, hurt, disappointed, frustrated, or afraid. And if we choose to make any one of those the centerpiece of our consciousness, there is no “good day” with the power to wrestle it from us. (Deuteronomy 30:15)
Thought for the Day – Poisoned Apples
Posted in Commentaries, Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged just and unjust, presumption, right and wrong, self-made, the tree of the knowlege of good and evil on August 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The fruit of the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil” (Genesis 2:17) is presumption. Partaking of it allows us to believe that we can rightfully discern for ourselves what is right and wrong; what is just and unjust; and ultimately, what is in our best interests. It’s pulp nourishes the notion that we are self-made and dependent on no one.
Thought for the Day – Insecurity
Posted in Commentaries, Opinions, Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged coerce, insecurity, manipulation, self-doubt on July 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Insecurity will often cause a person to try to gain by manipulation what others would willingly give to them (e.g. attention, affection, respect). Self-doubt convinces them that illegitimate means are the only way to obtain what is legitimately available to them. Ultimately, these attempts to coerce are often what drive people away, which only serves to reinforce their feelings of insecurity.
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Thought for the Day – Denting the Doorway
Posted in Commentaries, Opinions, Thought for the Day / Quotes, Word Pictures, tagged convince, refuse to believe on December 30, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Trying to convince someone of something they refuse to believe is akin to throwing rocks at a closed door. All it does is damage the doorway.
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