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 […]
Session Summary: In this episode I talk about stretching your faith to a new level. God is not always a God of safety and security, but rather of stretching and sending. I talk about the most quoted Bible verses that, in fact, are not even Bible verses. We also dive into some great Biblical text […]
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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 […]