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Articles published in 2023

Slowing Down to Greet Our Savior

December 6th, 2023

It’s that time of year. On the one hand, we’re focused on the season’s school concerts, holiday shopping, the parties and festivities that come in December, and time with friends and family. At the same time, we’re focused on ending the year strong in our businesses, a last push to hit our numbers for the quarter, pleasing customers, and leading our teams.

 

Reading that paragraph above, your blood pressure may have risen slightly. You may have also noticed that “Christmas” wasn’t used once.

 

Love God Not the World

October 6th, 2023

I recently led a devotional time for a group based on a chapter from the book Choosing a Life That Matters by Dennis Rainey. Specifically, I was sharing the book's third chapter, which focuses on loving God, not the world.

 

In this chapter, Rainey addresses the idea that God and the world are competing for our affection… and one is winning. How do we know which one it is? We look for the evidence. Rainey helps us think about this by providing a list of things we do if we love someone.

 

If we love a person, we like to think about them.

What's God Telling You To Do?

August 1st, 2023.

What's God Telling You To Do?

 

Often in life, we find ourselves asking God what He wants from us. What do you want me to do? How should I react in this situation? Where should I set down this fear and anxiety?

 

Life would be easier if there were billboards along the side of the road with personalized messages for us, answering all of these questions. The bad news is that's not how our walk with God works. The good news is that God has other ways of communicating with us, one of the primary ways being His word.

 

Embracing Life in the Fire

July 1st, 2023

In Daniel 3, we hear the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. King Nebuchadnezzar had created an image of gold and instructed the people to fall down and worship it with this warning… Those who did not worship the idol would be thrown into a blazing furnace.

 

How's your quiet time?

June 1st, 2023

We ask this question like it's expected that we all have a quiet time in our lives, but as men in the world today, making and taking the time to get quiet can feel almost impossible. There's a lot of cultural noise to contend with, coming at us from every direction. Layer on top of that the challenges and expectations that can come with being a leader at work, and getting quiet becomes even more difficult. Add being a husband and a dad, and the noise can become deafening.

 

The Power of Your Words at Work

April 1st, 2023

Our tongue is the most powerful of all the tools we use as leaders and influencers within our work. It can lift up those around us and show Christ's love in our workplace, and it can also create the most damage. Someone we work with frustrates us, and we greet them with a snide remark. Someone misses a deadline, and our words light them on fire. Someone fails, and we meet them with sarcasm.

 

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