If you drink enough bad coffee, you’ll eventually get used to it. Even worse, if you've never known good coffee, you'll grow up believing that the bad is actually good. Or, maybe you'll just say: "It's not great, but it's good enough." Few people attain great lives because it’s really easy to settle for a good life. For a good enough life. Is that what God wants for you? It's not. Not only does he want so much more for you - he can do so much more for you. ---------- For Further Reflection ---------- Rise Above: How to Go Faster, Farther, & Higher in Your Faith Point of No Return: Tackling Your Next New Assignment with Courage...
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You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:6-8 While we might readily acknowledge that we are powerless to change our condition and that we were indeed ungodly, we struggle to admit the third truth - that we were sinners. I may make a few mistakes but I’m not a bad person. It’s why we can sing Amazing Grace without really thinking about the words … “Amazing grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.” None of us like to think about how wretched we are. We’d rather live in the self-delusion that compared to others we…
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You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:6-8 What does it mean to be ungodly? It's really not all that complex. It simply means to be unlike God. But it does go deeper than that. Imagine a child wandering into The Louvre in Paris with a Sharpie and drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa. What would you call that? A mistake? A felony? One appropriate word would be desecration. At its core, desecration is a failure to respect a masterpiece, to not respect or uphold what is sacred. From the earliest pages of Scripture we learn that we are…
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Sometimes we refer to the writers of the New Testament as “saints” such as St. Paul or St. Peter. But God didn’t seek us out because we were saints. He loved us when we were far from him. Listen to these sentences from Paul - they reveal three truths about ourselves and one amazing truth about God. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:6-8 Truth number one: we were powerless to change our own condition. A few years ago, I hurt my lower back. For the first several years I would have "flare-ups" every few months and they…
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I began using Scrivenor (a writing app) several years ago. It's a great tool for gathering and organizing information, creating characters or scenes, and then exporting the finished product for e-book or paperback. But here's the catch: it's loaded with possibilities and I learned the hard way - by trial and error. If you're interested in writing, check out Learn Scrivenor Fast by the Scrivenor Coach. It's been used by Michael Hyatt and others. ----------
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