Spiritual Growth

Devotional-style readings to help you grow and develop wisdom as a spouse, parent, friend, leader, and most importantly, as a Jesus-follower.
Sowing Seeds Sowing Seeds
Theology

Sowing Seeds

If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, “Move from here to there,” and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. (Matthew 17:20) I am guessing…

My 34th (Spiritual) Birthday My 34th (Spiritual) Birthday
Identity

My 34th (Spiritual) Birthday

Earlier this week . . . September 19th . . . was the anniversary of the night I walked out in the backyard of my house and cried out to God for the first time in…

Perception is Reality? Perception is Reality?
Walking the Talk

Perception is Reality?

We’ve all heard the old saying “Perception is reality.” And it’s true . . . to a point. We act on what we perceive to be real and true. That’s functional reality but often, it’s…

Four Ways to Deal with Doubt Four Ways to Deal with Doubt
Theology

Four Ways to Deal with Doubt

In my last post, I wrote about people who brought immature pictures of God into adult life and then abandoned faith altogether because their ‘god’ didn’t live up to his title. In the last few…

A God That Doesn’t Exist A God That Doesn’t Exist
Theology

A God That Doesn’t Exist

Andy Stanley has a way of asking questions that bring amazing clarity to complex issues. In his sermon series “Who Needs God,” he talks about a number of common misperceptions about God and the ‘descriptors’…

What’s Your One Thing? What’s Your One Thing?
Purpose

What’s Your One Thing?

I remember my daddy saying, “I’m a jack-of-all-trades, but master of none.” I took that as ‘gospel’ and have said it for years, especially after failing to complete a home repair project and having to…

The Job of a Lifetime The Job of a Lifetime
Purpose

The Job of a Lifetime

I read this the other day in an article from CBS MoneyWatch . . . “Of the country’s approximately 100 million full-time employees, 51 percent aren’t engaged at work – meaning they feel no real…

Exposed Exposed
Community

Exposed

Webster’s dictionary defines exposed as “made visible by uncovering it” or “left in an unprotected or vulnerable state.” The Greek translation of the root word elegxo means “to convince with solid compelling evidence.” No matter…