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First Roadblock: Denial; Blockbuster: Positive Self-Talk

Consistent denial of our abilities and responsibilities will stop us in our tracks. We cannot climb to our God-given potential when we deny the fact that God has made us for greatness.
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Busting Through Roadblocks to Your God-Given Potential

What is your spark? What is it that you love to experience so much that you must help others experience the same thing?
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How the Bible Says to Build Winning Relationships

Always do what is good for others even if they are not doing the same for us. Someone has to set the standard. If we dumb down to their level of thinking and acting then we have allowed them to set our standard. Let us set our own higher standard.
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One Ingredient All Healthy Relationships Must Have

“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces” (Matthew 7:6, NIV). Most people teach that Jesus is telling us here to not waste our time trying to lead people to him who are not willing to follow him. I do not believe that is what Jesus is teaching here at all.
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Are You Wasting Your Life?

To say, “I am the same person I have always been” is to say “I have never grown up” or “I am not any smarter now than I ever was” or “I just don’t give a crap about getting any better in any area of my life”.
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Are You Going to Dream or Are You Going to Climb?

Sometimes I hear people talking about waiting on God. God has made it very plain that waiting is what we need to do, then wait. However, most of the time we are just trying to spiritualize our reluctance to take action. I get this strong feeling that God is probably waiting on them.
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How I Went From a 6th-grade Flunky to 4.0 Grad Student

I wrote a blog about how I went from a 6th-grade flunky who always struggled academically to a student that excelled in a Master’s program with a 4.0 GPA. Someone made the comment that the school must not have been very good if someone who always struggled academically was able to do so well. I think his insinuation was that it was not a “real” Master's from a “real” school.
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Where There Is No Vision, The People Perish

To not have that purpose is deadening. To discover and follow that purpose is life to the full; life more abundantly; it is real and eternal life, more and better life than we ever dreamed of! Helen Keller said it well when asked if there was anything worse than being blind and she replied, “Yes, being able to see and having no vision.”
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5 Clues to Uncover your N.I.C.H.E.

Not only does everyone have their first purpose (to know, love, and follow Jesus), and their general purpose (Worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry, and evangelism), but each one of us also has a specific purpose. While our first and general purpose are universal, our specific purpose is unique for each and every one of us.
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Is Jesus Your Leader?

Our first purpose is to come to know, love, and follow Jesus. It is only in him “that we find out who we are and what we are living for.”