Tired Of The Election? Want It Over? READ THIS.
I am completely over the anger-charged demonization and hatred coursing through the soul of America’s political institution. Tired of the 2020 Election? Are you kidding? Enough already. If you’re with me, read on and we’ll turn it off in five steps: 1) EMBRACE HOPE; 2) FAITH OVER FEAR; 3) PRAY FOR CALM; 4) SHINE GOD’S LIGHT; and 5) GIVE IT TO GOD. Our starting place is to EMBRACE HOPE...
Landing In God’s Arms Made Me CRY
Before fully activating my faith, I was a Corporate CEO chasing success with a load of pain burdening my every step. Every minute. Every breath. Even now I can remember stretching out for Jesus to know him intimately. What I did not realize then, but know now, is that he was waiting for me to surrender first. Tears of joy flowed like a rain-swollen river when I fully surrendered my life...
The Frustrating Futilism Of FATALISM
This just in from our global online tribe: “I want to have faith, but I feel like I have no control over my future. That I can’t change anything. It’s like I’m powerless and I want to give up. What do I do? This question has been around since ancient Greece when Aristotle presented the notion of FATALISM–a way of thinking that is antithetical to Christianity because it rejects the...
He Was TRICKED Into Sinning And He Wants Revenge
This year’s Halloween “celebration” may have passed, but the danger of being TRICKED INTO SINNING by the Enemy is still parked in the driveway of every Christian. C’mon, tricked into sinning? Absolutely. Nobody wakes up with a “TO-SIN LIST” on their nightstand. We sin by falling for Satan’s trick that makes something look “irresistible” and feel like what we receive is FREE....
Thanking God In ADVANCE Is NOT Presumptuous?
This just in from our global online tribe of 900,000 followers: I hear other Christians say we should thank God IN ADVANCE. Isn’t that presumptuous on our part? This is a GREAT question because it is about FAITH. And faith is important, right? Of course! Faith is not hoping God will show up. Faith is not thinking God might be able to act. Faith is thanking God in advance...
ELECTION DAY! Very Important. But It’s NOT God.
Most people will be MORE THAN GLAD when this election season turns out the lights and retreats into the shadows to prepare for its next assault on our senses. But before the 2020 election circus breaks down the tents and shelters the restless animals, all eyes will be on its three rings with great interest in the OUTCOME and who got the most VOTES. Saying there is “GREAT INTEREST” in...
WIN The Fight To Activate Your Faith By NOT Fighting
Christians trying to ACTIVATE THEIR FAITH are engaged in a complex and complicated WAR that pushes us to “TRY HARD” and “FIGHT HARD” to win. I get it. But we should reconsider that TRY-HARD, FIGHT HARD approach by looking at the Chinese General Sun Tzu who crushed his enemy WITHOUT fighting. Sounds Christ-like, doesn’t it? It’s true that Christians trying to become FaithWalkers are in...
Our PLAN B Can Be God’s PLAN A
A couple of days ago when I was preparing to evacuate as fires burned toward our Southern California home, I tossed my first Bible–tattered but cherished by me—and my five-foot high stack of hand-written journals into my car’s boot. When the threat passed 24 hours later, I grabbed one of those journals and leafed through its coffee-stained pages from a time early in my faith walk. One of the...
Luke Skywalker is Cool, But FaithWalkers Are Powerful
Luke Skywalker’s famous line from the Star Wars canon–Confronting fear is the destiny of a Jedi, YOUR destiny—is profoundly and palpably powerful. But it cannot stand up against the Bible’s insightful FaithWalker verse: “For we live by faith, not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7 One of the most important lessons I learned as a new Christian was to be a FaithWalker. Looking...
His FAITH PRE-MORTEM Showed Disease Forming
I use PROSPECTIVE HINDSIGHT to increase my ability as a CEO to identify risks on the road ahead. Then I turn this thinking into a PRE-MORTEM to imagine why a project has “failed” even though it has not started. With that information in hand, I work back to determine what could be done–before beginning–to avoid the negative outcome. To make this easy, think of a PRE-MORTEM...