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We all can feel intimidated by certain situations, whether they be social or professional. For instance, it is hard to go to a party where you don’t know anyone. Or it can be difficult to start a new job. At times like that, we want to feel confident, but so much of what we are…

Conventional wisdom says there are three rules that you need to follow to be happy. You need to get married. You need to have children (plural – not just one!). And you need to make a lot of money. And if you accomplish those three things, you will be happy. The problem is that I…

Every day, we have an opportunity to make a fresh start. If you woke up this morning, then that is God’s message to you that He wants to give you a new opportunity to improve yourself and your life. Today, you have the opportunity to break bad habits. Today, you have the opportunity to end…

In life, you will have disappointments. That is just an inevitable part of the human experience. However, it is not how many disappointments we have that defines our life experience. Rather, it is how we rebound from those disappointments that shapes our lives. When you face a disappointment of any kind, there are three things…

Difficult people are everywhere. It is hard to avoid them. They are noisy. They are argumentative. They kick up a big fuss when they don’t get their way. They can be aggressive. And the bottom line is that they are just plain annoying. I recently dealt with someone who is a very difficult person. This…

God has a special purpose for your life. In fact, he has a special purpose for each one of us. And from the moment that we are born until the day that we die, our job is to figure out our purpose and fulfill it. The challenge for many people is that they can’t figure…

You may have seen my church, the United Methodist Church, in the news this week. Unfortunately, the headlines have not been “United Methodist Church Makes Great Strides to Eliminate Poverty.” Nor have the headlines been, “United Methodist Church Leads the World Promoting the Welfare of Children.” If only. No instead, to my embarrassment, the headlines…

God has blessed each us with gifts and talents. We are called to develop those talents and use them to serve the world. Yet, many people don’t ever fully develop their gifts. They never reach their full potential. And typically, it isn’t due to being lazy. Rather, it is due to their holding self-defeating beliefs. We…

Recently, I spoke with a friend whose teenage daughter is struggling. When a therapist asked her daughter to name some of her own best qualities, her daughter couldn’t think of one. Hearing this pained me. My friend’s daughter is kind, beautiful, smart, athletic and artistically gifted. She absolutely has it all. Yet when this young lady…

It is easy to love other people when they are like us. It is easy to love people who agree with us politically, who have the same values as we do, and who have the same interests. Basically, it is easy to love people who we like. But Jesus doesn’t call us to merely love…
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