Month: January 2017
This is the last post in our series on pursuing discipline in 2017. This post will likely be the most difficult of the five areas we have considered. I say that because the average US household has around $90k in…
I remember the haunting words to this day: “Your dirty car is a spiritual problem.” A mentor of mine said this while teaching on dominion from Genesis 1. My car was not embarrassingly dirty, but I rarely gave it a…
When I was in college, I worked at a gym and loved every minute of it. One of the things that you notice working at a gym is the cycles of a calendar. We would have record-setting rates of sign-ups…
The Spiritual Discipline of Reading Widely and Regularly When I was 27, I started teaching a Sunday School class with my friend. We both had been married for two years, so naturally we decided to teach on marriage and family….
Trey Brunson gave us a needed exhortation this past Monday to read our Bible. In this post, I want to support that needed exhortation with some thoughts on why God’s Word is worth it. The Day the Squirrel Got Loose…
New Year’s is such a powerful time because it’s an opportunity to start over. Bethany Hamilton is such an encouragement in this area. After the professional surfer had her left arm bit off by a shark in 2013, she made…