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May 19 - June 2, 2022
promises pleasure, but read the fine print. It’ll cost you your integrity—plus tax. The tax is shame!
the answer to every prayer is more of the Holy Spirit. We want more love, more joy, and more peace, but those are fruits of the Spirit. So what we need is more of the Holy Spirit. And that goes for the rest of the fruit, including the ninth fruit—self-control.
Everything we want is the by-product of living a Spirit-led, Spirit-filled life.
My marital counseling boils down to one piece of advice: focus on meeting your spouse’s needs, not yours.
The goal of marriage isn’t happiness, it’s holiness.
diaper spelled backwards is repaid.
many of us are held hostage by a secret sin. And the enemy wants to blackmail us! His secret weapon is getting us to keep our secret sin a secret.
It takes moral courage to come clean and confess your sin, but it’s a deathblow to the Three-Headed Dragon. Play the man!
That’s is the fifth virtue of manhood. It’s resilience in the face of rejection, fortitude in the face of fear. It’s a no guts, no glory approach to life, even in the face of impossible odds.
God told them to fill the earth and subdue it.
A Resilient Life, Gordon MacDonald
He hung on the cross for us, we can carry our cross for Him!
Jesus was a man on a mission; He had a clear vision.
some of those friendships will be intergenerational.
And we all need a Barnabas—a spiritual brother.
The Scottish Chiefs.
If you grow yourself, everyone around you will grow because of it.
Grow yourself and you’ll grow your platform, grow your network.
If you forget who God is, you forget who you are!
God is the Promise Keeper! You stand fast in the faith by standing on the promises of God.
Luke 2:52 into a daily prayer: “May you grow in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with man.”
It’s a mission from God that keeps us on the straight and narrow. When we are busy with the Father’s business, we can’t be sidetracked. A mission from God not only motivates us to do the right thing, it also demotivates us from doing the wrong thing. If you aren’t on a mission from God, you aren’t really living—you’re
Keep busy with the Father’s business. Simply put, follow Jesus. If you do, you’ll be anything but bored.
four of them: humility, gratitude, generosity, and courage.
family values,
If all else fails, I want them to know they are beloved. I also want them to know my love isn’t performance-based. I love them because of who they are, not because of what they do.
don’t quit until you’ve provided your family with the vision and values they deserve!
Andy Stanley titled Choosing to Cheat. One statement I read in the book totally changed my perspective: “To say yes to one thing is to say no to the other.”
adaptation of Luke 2:52—May you grow in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and with man.
Wallace says, “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”11
“I have three messages,” said Diana, her words slurred by a swollen tongue. “One is we should never, ever give up. Two is you never are too old to chase your dreams. Three is it looks like a solitary sport, but it’s a team.”2
pray that my children have a Matthew 3:17 moment. I want them to hear, loud and clear, that they are beloved. I want them to know that I am well pleased. Not because of what they’ve done, for better or for worse, but because of who they are—my son, my daughter.
