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You can officially retire at the age of 55, while the average life expectancy is 79 years old. Give or take 24 years, every Christian has a decision to make about the twilight years of their life. The overwhelming consensus is simple: put life on cruise control, travel to see the grandkids and the world,…

Imagine a dead end job with no ladder to climb, no objectives to achieve and little to no interaction with other coworkers. Now imagine that this job is well out of cell phone and internet coverage and so you don’t have that trusted appendage, your cell phone to occupy your time. Now imagine that this…

What is it that gets under your skin for Jesus? What do you get righteously angry about? What situation, scenario or circumstance makes you want to be like your Savior and start turning over tables in the temple? What prayer request do you bring before God again and again, saying, “God, you need to do…

Have you ever driven past a billboard that had too much information on it to read as you drove by? It’s as if they expected you to slow down long enough to read all that they had to say. What a crazy thought! We live in a world of speed and distraction. Technology helps our lives…

I recently heard two conflicting pieces of marriage advice. The first one said that every time you talk to your spouse on the phone, you finish by saying “I love you.” The second piece of advice said that this was the stupidest thing he’d ever heard.  Not coincidentally, the giver of the first piece of…

Maybe it was a party you knew you shouldn’t have gone to. Perhaps it was a marriage everyone told you was doomed from the start but you were going to prove them wrong. Maybe it was a financial decision that led you into ruin. We all have regrets, we all have mistakes, we all have…

Years ago my wife and I took a vacation down to the Gulf Coast and did something we’d always wanted to do: parasailing. After being at the beach and enjoying the water for a few days, we ventured several hundred feet above the ocean to see if the view looked any different from up top,…

It’s easy to say that we have faith, but faith doesn’t become faith until you have you use it. In the opening chapters of Joshua, Joshua has to step into the legacy left behind by Moses. In those first critical moments of leadership, God instructs Joshua to two specific steps of faith. In Joshua 3-4,…

As simplistic as the title might seem, it’s a shame how often we desire change without actually implementing it. Whether it’s a relationship that’s broken, an education that remains elusive or a weight loss goal that stays frustratingly out of reach, when it comes to meaningful change, you don’t get points for how much you want it.…

Ehud was an Old Testament character known primarily for the fact that he was a left-handed man (Judges 3:15). You can almost imagine the taunts of the kids growing up, the laughter at his expense, perhaps even the regret by Ehud that God had made him different than everyone else. But what made him different…
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