Bearing Fruit

I’ve often heard teachers say that Christians are supposed to ‘bear fruit’. I’ve also heard them teach that we don’t earn our way into heaven. Those two ideas are seemingly contradictory, until I finally understood the true meaning of the word ‘bear’ as it’s used in ‘bearing fruit’. Read the rest of this entry »

Abide

I’ve always taken the word ‘abide’ for granted, without really grasping the word’s full meaning. Read the rest of this entry »

The Battle for My Time

Tonight, I struggled inside with what to do with some extra time I had available when my wife and kids had all gone to sleep. Initially, I wanted to watch what I consider to be an entertaining movie (Avatar). Then, as I was getting myself a cookie and milk for dessert (I like my dessert), I had what was basically a battle in my head over whether I should watch Avatar or something that is more ‘aligned’ with the Lord’s will. The battle went something like this, to the best of my recollection about 20 minutes ago… Read the rest of this entry »

Holiness not Happiness

This morning, I was fuming again about my wife’s utter lack of organization, and what I believe is simply a matter of her doing as little as is possible to get by without me exploding every day. Sometimes it seems like that doesn’t even matter; like her attitude is simply “deal with it”.

I was showering and stewing on this negative energy, when I believe I heard from God: Read the rest of this entry »

July 06, 2010

It’s been a few days since my last entry. I’ve been busy back-filling entries from earlier this year and now from 2009. I have hundreds of entries to load – some more insightful than others, but all part of my growth story. Read the rest of this entry »

Experience

Experience is the name we give our mistakes. Experience is a tough teacher because it gives the exam first and the lessons afterwards. If we turn our mistakes into mirrors, we’ll only see ourselves. If by faith we turn our mistakes into windows, we’ll see the Lord and His path for us and we’ll get the strength to keep trying.
– Chuck Missler: Joshua Commentary (CD8)

This blogging thing…

I’m starting to realize that I’m really enjoying journaling in this blog. It’s great to see my thoughts recorded in this way. I remember a while back thinking about developing a website that would allow people to journal their Bible study… this blogging thing is actually very releasing. Read the rest of this entry »

Distracted again…

I just deleted a bunch of games from my phone that were becoming a huge distraction for me. What is my deal with getting addicted to games??? At least this time, I recognized that it was becoming too much of a distraction and was decisive about ridding myself of it. Read the rest of this entry »