In 1983 Physicist Lorne Whitehead demonstrated how one domino can knock down another domino double its size. In 2001 a physicist recreated the experiment showing how a two inch domino could eventually topple the Empire State Building by the eighteenth domino, the Eiffel Tower by the twenty-third domino, and bridging the gap between earth and the moon […]
James 4:7 (NIV) – Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. You are in a fight! A fight for your purpose & potential. Understand that you were created with a specific function in mind. You were not created on an assembly line, you were created by a master-craftsman who formed you together […]
There is a great story in the Bible that we all may have heard of but may have overlooked… Matthew 16:13-20 (NIV) 13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” 14 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Not long ago my youngest daughter was working on her long and short vowel sounds. As she was working on recognizing diacritical marks such as: the macron (¯), and the breve (˘) she seemed a little disturbed by the symbols. She frustratingly said, “Can we just change those symbols?” My wife told her we could not […]
The other day my family and I were having lunch and we saw a sign in their gift shop that read, Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself. I thought that was a great statement. We tend to naturally get off course more often than we probably care to admit. There is something […]
Life continuously speeds up. In fact, the older you get the faster time goes…or at least our perception of it. There have been numerous studies conducted about the effect of time on our psychological and physiological energy. The truth is as each year passes by we need more recovery time. Our lives were designed to […]