What are the things you need to do, daily? Make a list; toiletries, breathe, dress (if you are going out and don’t want arrested), eat and drink (eventually but not daily), anything else? List the things you have to do. Consider the things God says happen and should happen daily.
Old buckets were made of thin planks called staves side by side and held together by rings. You could only fill water up to the lowest stave. Find your lowest stave, your one thing and allow the increase to come.
This list walks through the many passages pointing to Jesus in the Old Testament. Jesus doesn’t appear on the scene in Matthew 1 out of nowhere. He is pictured and foretold throughout the Old Testament. Follow the passages and trace the blood-line from Genesis 3 all the way to Christ’s advent in the Gospels.
What do the choices I make say about me? If all I ever choose is what I want I am nothing more than a toddler. If I, with consistency, choose what I need to do, what I must do, what I should do…I am a maturing growing adult. Maturity makes the hard choices.
Here is the point, subjectivity can never win over objectivity. It IS all about what “IS”. Threatening to sound like a country song, don’t say you love me if you don’t. Don’t say you want what is best if you don’t. Don’t say you are trying harder if you don’t. Words matter and words that do not correspond to the reality they are projecting misdirect and miscommunicate.
Three things form our perspective; context, experience and knowledge. Where you are, what you know and where you have been. Each of these factors form how we see and interprete everything, create paradigms and worldviews.
What you believe matters. Your beliefs shape your actions and your perspective on life. What you believe about your self shapes how you treat yourself. What you believe about your spouse shapes how you treat them. What you believe about God shapes everything. Your beliefs matter. Or, they have gravity…weight…importance. However, not all beliefs carry the same weight.
I am from western Pennsylvania. I have a western Pennsylvania mind. I serve in a western Pennsylvania church. It has a western Pennsylvania context and culture. I am from here, serve here, and think from here with people who do the same. For those not from here let me enlighten you. It was not one [...]
Our greatest accomplishments and memories in life will be draped with the unsafe out of the box decisions. Can the dangerous things happen, sure. Might they, maybe. Could you experience something amazing in the process? Absolutely. Can your life never be the same?
In colonial warfare bullets didn’t just fire out of guns. It took a series of steps to load and prime a weapon before it could fire. One of those steps was loading the primer. The primer was a simple cap that served as a spark or catalyst to ignite the gun powder that would in [...]
