Wayne Stiles's Blog, page 49
February 9, 2017
Virtual Holy Land Tours Survey
I need your opinion on an upcoming project that's pretty huge.
I’m VERY close to launching a huge project—literally years the making. It will begin with several videos I can’t wait to show you on Jesus’ final week in Jerusalem before Easter. It’s a week often called “The Passion Week.”
But the complete project itself has a much larger goal.
(photo: Filming by the Sea of Galilee)
As you know, I love to connect the Bible and its lands to your life. This project will provide a virtual tour of t...
February 8, 2017
How to Strengthen Your Vulnerable Buffer Zone
The foothills of Israel's Shephelah offer lessons on keeping spiritually alert.
Do you have a buffer zone between you and what can harm you? I’m talking about putting a safeguard between you and evil influences that can cause compromise in your walk with Jesus Christ. We see an illustration of this buffer zone throughout Old Testament history in the foothills of Israel’s Shephelah.
(Photo: The Shephelah. Courtesy of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands)
Between the Philistine plain and the Hi...
February 7, 2017
quote by Michele Cushatt on how real faith means letting go. [Quote]
Real faith is a letting go. A releasing of the what-if’s when everything in you wants to tighten your grip. It’s a allowing yourself to free fall into the unknown because you have absolute confidence that waiting at the other end are arms big enough to catch you, help you, and make you whole.Keep reading this post. >>>
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February 6, 2017
The Hinnom Valley – Redeemed Just Like You
Jerusalem's infamous valley reminds us nobody is too far gone for God.
Some people, it seems, are too far gone. We pray for them for years, but they still refuse to walk with God. After so long a time, we feel it’s hopeless. But Jerusalem’s Hinnom Valley gives us reason to hope.
(Photo: The Hinnom Valley curves around Jerusalem’s southern side. Courtesy of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands)
Some places in Jerusalem are as infamous as others are famous. The Hinnom Valley is such a site. It...
February 4, 2017
Quote from Timothy Keller on the one thing our identity must be placed on so that we’re not devastated. [Quote]
If anything threatens your identity, you will not just be anxious but paralyzed with fear. If you lose your identity through the failings of someone else, you will not just be resentful but locked into bitterness. If you lose it through your own failings, you will hate or despise yourself as a failure as long as you live. Only if your identity is built on God and his love . . . can you have a self that can venture anything, face anything.Keep reading this post. >>>
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February 3, 2017
Good News from God for Chronic Ball-Droppers
Jesus' parable says what to do when you're juggling too much.
Ever tried to juggle? I gave it a shot with three tennis balls one time. I might as well have thrown the balls three different directions. It was hilarious! In the end, I could only “juggle” one ball.
(Photo: by Christian “VisualBeo” Horvat. Own work. GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons)
Most people can learn to juggle three balls, I’m told. But adding a fourth ball divides the amateurs from the pros.
But what about adding a fifth ball?...
February 2, 2017
I Am: A 60-Day Journey to Knowing Who You Are Because of Who He Is [Book]
I Am: A 60-Day Journey to Knowing Who You Are Because of Who He Is by Michele Cushatt (Zondervan, 2017) I love the way Michele Cushatt writes. Her pen never dips in a shallow inkwell but plunges in the depths of the real Christian life. Raw, real, and relevant, her words reflect the insight of a woman who has gone to the edge with God and found Him still secure. Her latest book, I Am: A 60-Day Journey to Knowing Who You Are Because of Who He Is, offers us the next step b...
February 1, 2017
My First Year Using CoSchedule [Video]
If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. For the past year I’ve used CoSchedule to help market my blog posts. At first, honestly, I doubted the benefits of spending money each month to do what I could do myself. But I quickly realized that time is worth more than money when I was spending up to 30 minutes a day scheduling posts and re-posts on social media. As a busy blogger, I have little time for fussing with the back end of my blog. I prefer w...
4 Promises of God to Give You Hope & Security
In a world that disappoints us, we need to cling to the One who never will.
There’s not much we can be sure of today. We live in a world of broken promises, broken families, backstabbing friends, and personal failures. And that’s just at church.
(Photo courtesy of Unsplash)
After a lifetime of disillusions, we’ve come to expect little else. We often hope for nothing in hopes we won’t be disappointed. It’s easy to get sucked into the black hole of hopelessness. It happens because we live in an...
January 30, 2017
Bethsaida—With God Your Past is Never Pointless
The hometown of 3 disciples reveals God never wastes our past.
It’s hard feeling embarrassed about where you grew up. Maybe your family had problems. Perhaps your hometown or church seemed nothing special. You’re not alone. Three of Jesus’ disciples felt that way too.
(Photo: Plain of Bethsaida. Courtesy of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands)
The slopes near the site of Bethsaida offer some of the most beautiful scenery in the Galilee. In the spring, wildflowers burst open to drink in the s...
