Your Heart State in Communion with God and the World
Holy Communion is sort of my personal New Year or rebirth. That may sound ironically selfish, but stick with me. You see, when I have the opportunity to join with fellow believers in Holy Communion, I view it as a cleaning of the slate. A moment when I come into the...
To Live Fully Alive, You Must Do More than Exist
How can we be fully alive? I mean really and truly fully alive? There are many ways we go about making it happen. And we might even think we are doing it. Yet, the contentment, satisfaction, and good feelings that made us that way eventually fade. Sometimes it’s...
Is Your Attitude Pouring Into or Draining On Others?
We often hear about attitude and the importance of it. Clichés, like “your attitude determines your altitude” and “attitudes are contagious, make yours worth catching” are pretty common. As you may know, I am no fan of clichés, but I do also acknowledge that...
It’s My Pleasure… but You’re Not THE Boss of Me
My pleasure. I thought I was pretty wise when I decided to start saying that whenever anyone would thank me for the work I had done for them. I thought I was pretty smart. That is, I thought I was smart until learned it was the phrase Chick Fil-A employees are...
Resolve to Build Relationships with Love and Cheerfulness of Heart
There’s a lot of focus on how we build relationships throughout many areas. I find it to be true in my business trade, my ministry work, my roles at church, and in so many others. Some will call it customer service, experience management, or any of dozens of other...
Bearing Spiritual Fruit, Resolutions and Jonathan Edwards
For Jonathan Edwards, resolutions were instructions for living. It’s well chronicled that he wrote 70 resolutions and read them daily throughout life. He followed them and relied upon them for sustaining strength with the ultimate intention being the development of a...
Real Change – Lasting Change – from Resolutions Done Right
We fool ourselves into thinking real change can come from New Year’s Resolutions. But, the thing about resolutions that goes forgotten is the fact that you don’t have to wait until New Year’s Day to start them. Instead, more attention is given to people’s...
7 Posts About Allowing Anxiety to be Your Teacher
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States. In fact, they’re affecting 40 million adults – that’s 18.1% of the population – every year. Though treatable, most sufferers don’t get treatment.It’s connected to stress, worry,...
Introvert Anxiety Triggers – It’s a Thing!
I can’t help wondering if there is a direct link between anxiety and introverts. The more I think about it, the more I believe it to be true. And, as a classic introvert, I am of course thinking about it – often. A while back, I wrote a post titled “Okay, You’re an...
Divine Encounters – 7 Posts on Watching for Evidence of God
Divine encounters take many forms. Whether it’s scanning for Jesus Sightings, experiencing God Things, or responding to Spirit Promptings, God is omnipresent. Like it or not, we’re always in the presence of God. That means, no matter how much we screw up, it is never...