30
Jan
2012
Growing Your Skills to Give God Your Very Best
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How are you doing so far this year as a disciple? That’s the question I asked myself this morning in my prayer closet. Can you believe a month of 2012 is already gone? I paused in my prayer closet today to specifically evaluate how I am doing at my 5 SPARK intentions for the year:... Read More
23
Jan
2012
Finding God’s Blessing in Tough Times
The economy is painfully squeezing people. Churches are no exception. I know three different local churches who have had to release staff members and I have a colleague who recently retired a year early because his church could not afford to pay him. In my own church we have been continually tightening our belts since... Read More
9
Jan
2012
Honing Self-Discipline
One week into the New Year and a frightening number of New Year’s resolutions have already failed. Did you have one? How is that going for you? Often times the defining difference is self-discipline. Almost 2 years ago I wrote an article on self-discipline exercises and it still remains one of the most frequently... Read More
4
Jan
2012
Five Spiritual Insights From My Interview with BusyMomGetsFit
A number of life lessons with spiritual merit leapt out at me from my interview with Valerie Solomon, personal trainer, busy mom, fitness figure competition winner and author of the blog, and author of the blog BusyMomGetsFit.com. The Importance of Community in Discerning a Calling Valerie’s bigger goal of being in a Figure competition... Read More
3
Jan
2012
Out With The Old, In With The New
First off, if you missed yesterday’s post go back and read it right now. I have never had a post draw more traffic. You can read it here. Val’s personal search to hear God’s voice daily as she strove to meet her goal of becoming a personal trainer and competing in a fitness competition... Read More
31
Dec
2011
Rekindle Your Faith This Year With SPARK
Happy New Year! I hope you had an amazing 2011 full of God’s blessings. I love looking back at the prior year with gratitude and forming intentions for the New Year. As I have been preparing for the New Year an acronym began to form in my mind and a scripture verse came to... Read More