I have bad news for you…you are filled with excuses. That’s right…SO many excuses that you don’t even know it. In fact, the average person makes excuses all throughout the day…everyday. We are excuse filled people, always conjuring up a reason why we can’t do something. Wether it’s not wanting to exercise, eat right, study, […]
In the 1950s a skinny preacher named David Wilkerson infiltrated a gang controlled neighborhood on the streets of New York preaching the gospel. One of the most notorious and most feared gang leaders, Nicky Cruz, approached the preacher one frightful day and said, “You come near me and I’ll kill you!” Wilkerson replied, “Yeah, you could […]
Proverbs 10:4-5 (NIV) Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth. He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son. Let’s break it down… Lazy hands make for poverty, Laziness equals poverty. Not just financial poverty, but spiritual poverty. Understand that poverty is not […]
Session Summary: In this episode I talk about the characteristics that shape our identity. I give 3 critical areas we have to merge together to create a strong identity. Our whole life can get out of balance if just one area is off. Be sure to listen to the end where I give a 3 step challenge […]
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The famous artist Pablo Picasso said, “Good artist copy, great artist steal.” The most creative people are collectors of great ideas. They are inspired by everything around them. The secret to creativity is collecting everything you come across. In face, the reason some people have a highly creative output is because they have an overload of […]
I have always loved and tried to live by this motto: Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, learn as though you’ll live forever. The most successful people live in the balance of these two truths. One maximizes today, the other maximizes the future. The secret to a great life is to live fully today, yet […]
Either God is in control…or He is not. He cannot be kind of in control…but kind of not. I meet a lot of people that struggle with how to reconcile the balance between God being sovereign, or God being swayed. They are confused on how much God is in control or how much man is in […]
Session Summary: In this episode I interview an awesome teenage gal, Shylee Hall. Shylee, is an intern with us at our church and is just a great teenage girl who is living out her faith daily. We talk about not only her journey into faith, but also how we, as adults, can learn how to […]
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“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.” ~ Einstein Questions are one of the most powerful […]
We were created for community. In fact, community is what cultivates creativity. Even the Godhead 3-in1 Trinity shows us this principle. The Bible even shows us how we were created from community… Genesis 1:26 (NIV) Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish […]