Josh Hunt's Blog, page 33

You cannot grow alone

To this point we have been reflecting on what happens between God and me in fostering growth. But to these vertical realities we must join the horizontal. A Christian is connected not only up, to God, but also out, to other Christians. An independent Christian is a nonsensical category according to the Bible. Scripture calls […]

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Busyness is the enemy of connection

The UCLA study found that very few people had any unstructured time. In only one of the thirty-two families did a father regularly take an evening walk with his family. Five of the families were never in the same room at one time. The conclusion: these busy families are living at such a hectic pace […]

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The goal of spiritual growth

THE GOAL OF our spiritual growth is to become more and more like Jesus (see Romans 8:29). We tend to think of this as becoming more like Him in His character, but we need to remember that Jesus came to work—to do the will of the Father. On the eve of His crucifixion, He could […]

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God’s waiting room

I know what it is like to wait on a vision. Having been in ministry for more than four decades, I’ve had my fair share of the Lord giving me a dream I felt was from Him, only to have it derailed for lengths of time. Even as I write this book, I am in […]

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Changed more by what we say than what we hear

Jesus taught that we are changed as much by what we say as what we hear. Mark 7:15 (NIV) “Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’ ” “What comes out of a man”—what a man speaks is what […]

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The power of pre-decision

If you were to start applying everything we have discussed so far in making pre-decisions, how might that positively affect your life? Here are three immediate benefits: 1. Pre-Deciding Reduces the Number of Decisions to Make Pre-deciding combats feeling overwhelmed by all of our choices, which can lead to decision fatigue. Steve Jobs famously wore […]

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Sanctification by justification

We grow in Christ as we go deeper into, rather than moving on from, the verdict of acquittal that got us into Christ in the first place. It is common in some quarters of the church to think that the message of the gospel initiates us into the Christian life, and then we move on […]

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Shadow Christians do the dirty work.

Someone has to change nasty diapers and clean up vomit. When our children were younger, we had our share of handling both eruptions. My wife is a supermom (and an early childhood education specialist) who loves preschool children and probably knows as much about them as anyone. Even so, for some reason, vomit was her […]

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Worn out? Confused? Afraid

if you’re worn-out, confused, afraid, or a bit paranoid about what others are saying about you; if you’re angry, bitter, lonely, or misunderstood; when your anger makes it clear that your way isn’t working, I urge you to ask yourself a vital question: Am I humble enough to address the cracks? In Genesis 4, God […]

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Famous Last Words

For every person, there will come a last meal, a last breath, and of course, a last statement. And in many ways, what we say in the end is a real insight into what we were in life, what we stood for, and indeed what we lived for. Generally, we die as we have lived. […]

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