Do You Love Me More than These?
Chip wraps up this series by saying that a lot of us are harder on ourselves than God is. And maybe the reason we don’t enjoy the peace God offers is because instead of trusting Him with our deepest secrets,…
Read »God’s highest and best is achieved and accomplished in us when we choose to live a balanced life with healthy priorities. The question is: how do we achieve that in the current era of chronic busyness when our time is filled with good and necessary things?
Read »When we find our lives crashing down around us, how do we develop the kind of hope that gives us the strength not to give up, not to give in, and not blame God? Is it possible to get an…
Read »We all have expectations. But what about when it comes to God? For some of us who are married, we might think, “If I love Jesus, then my marriage is going be great!” For those of us who are single,…
Read »Ever have one of “those days” when everything just seems to be going wrong? You get up in the morning still tired from a less-than-perfect-night’s sleep and you turn on the news only to hear one catastrophe after another. You’re…
Read »We have a hundred percent control of our perspective, in every circumstance, no matter how difficult. This gives us the power to actually live above our circumstances.
Read »If you could describe in one word, the most painful, difficult, pressure-filled, negative experience that you’re facing right now in your life, what would it be? It’s that thing that bothers you the most and occupies your thoughts most of…
Read »In our small-minded human-nature economy, we think that freedom means going our own way. In fact, freedom is found in laying our lives down in the service of God, the One who made us, who knows us, and who has welcomed us into fellowship with Him. It is in this state of full surrender that the longing to obey rises up in us.
Read »Self-worth is, at times, a struggle for every one of us. Were you raised in a healthy, Christian family who encouraged you to seek your identity in Christ? Or were you raised in a way that connected your identity to external markers? No matter your upbringing, there are times when we all grab the world’s measuring stick and use it to gauge our self-worth. It’s time to learn to see yourself through the eyes of your Creator.
Read »The enemy has creative ways of discouraging us during difficult times. Sometimes we stop having hope; other times we begin to see life as unfair and our circumstances as unjust. Or, other times, we’re just stuck in our emotions and pain. God knows your pain and has compassion for what we endure as sojourners on the earth. In His lovingkindness, He gives us encouragement for the journey.
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Join me and the Living on the Edge Team for the I Choose Joy weekend seminar at The Cove Friday, September 22nd — Sunday, September 24th.