How Do You Respond to Adversity?
We are walking through this issue in this very hour. A blessing we expected God to deliver has been withheld, at least for a time. Looking with natural eyes, we’d be tempted to feel lost and abandoned to a vision-less and terrifyingly empty scenario. But I don’t feel yet compelled to release this expected blessing. I don’t believe people have the ultimate say in everything.

Coming to Terms with the Power of Our Words
God has been teaching me since high school that the words we speak to each other or to ourselves are not only important, but they carry the power of life and death, both in a physical and a spiritual sense. The words that we speak over other people and ultimately over ourselves has been an enormous passion of mine for as long as I can remember. Once upon a time,

The First Step Toward Renewing the Mind
The first phase of “renewing the mind” involves disciplining the mind.  We must control what we let into our mind and what we allow to remain in our mind.  The mind is very powerful.  The mind controls what we think, what we say, and what we do.  In 2nd Corinthians 6:5b, the Apostle Paul informs us that we are in a battle, and that in this battle we must &#

Behavioral Changes Don’t Equal Intimacy
I’ve written twice this week about the content I focus on, whether it be television, radio, music, news, books, blogs, and tweets. It’s very true that the content we absorb and constantly wash our minds with determines the inclination of our emotions, beliefs, and thoughts. All that information takes up residence in our memories and must be housed. Contrary to popular belief, the

Changing What You Listen to Could Change Your Life
I came across this blog post today via Twitter. It so closely mirrored the heart of what I wrote yesterday that I had to give you a taste here. JBMavrich writes of how he spent his daily commute to and from work (read his entire post here):