Applying Personality Profiles
Personality Profiles Over the past 20 years or so, I’ve taken at least three different types of personality profile assessments. They all provide the same, basic information, just different wording....
View ArticleRepetition Means Pay Attention
Key Study Technique One of the best ways to learn from Scripture, no matter what part you’re reading, is by looking for repeated words and phrases. In fact, noticing such patterns while reading the...
View ArticleRemember?!
Is Remembering Enough? From holidays to monuments, memorials commemorate and preserve a significant person, place or event. Think of memorials as direction markers in history showing the people and...
View ArticleDon’t Forget to Remember!
Remembering our history as a culture, as individuals and related to our faith is important. To Remember?!, especially as Christians, exists not simply as an act of recollection but also as a habit that...
View ArticlePurposeful Remembering
As Christians, it’s important that we “Don’t Forget to Remember.” Understanding this thread found throughout the Bible helps us understand the place remembering should take in our lives. In other...
View ArticleActive Remembering
When we “Don’t Forget to Remember” and live with “Purposeful Remembering,” we keep God’s activity and character throughout history and in our own lives fresh in a way that fuels our faith. This active...
View ArticleFiction… Wisdom for Living
. Benefits of Reading Fiction Research shows that regularly reading fiction brings tremendous benefit. Those include… Improved vocabulary Reduced loneliness Better understanding of self Learning...
View ArticleLive Long & Prosper
Most people, even if they’ve never watched Star Trek, associate “Live long and prosper” with this iconic show/movie. More specifically, they associate it with one of the most well-known characters in...
View ArticleCapturing Thoughts
Continual Drawing There’s sometimes little rhyme or reason to how my mind works. I just don’t get how I dwell on certain things but let others go easily. Frustrating, especially when nothing I do can...
View ArticleSurrounded
The song “Fight My Battles” by Michael W. Smith annoyed me the first several times I heard it. I mean, it’s the same wording over and over and over again. “This is how I fight my battles…” “It may look...
View ArticleA Passion for Seeking Wisdom
As Christians, we believe the Bible gives us all we need for right living. As God’s inspired word, it tells us all we need to know to love God and love others (Mark 12:30-31). The Holy Spirit is our...
View ArticlePraying Proverbs 23:23
“Get the truth and never sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment.” (Proverbs 23:23) This is my prayer for my two boys right now. They’re learning to live on their own, one in college...
View ArticleRespond or React
In an article on Psychology Today, Dr. Matt James differentiates between responding and reacting. Below is a summary of what he says. Reacting and responding may look the same at times, but they...
View ArticleLiving Intentionally
Most of us want to live a well thought out life. We want to be deliberate about our choices and how we respond to life. Unfortunately, life gets so busy and overwhelming sometimes that we end up living...
View ArticleTalk Less. Listen More.
Live at Peace Doing your part to Live at Peace with others is highly contextual. Specific situations and people require certain and different actions and words. The right response varies from one...
View ArticleBe Determined
Biblical Examples Determination can be good or bad depending on your focus. It also lasts or fades depending on the approach we take to maintaining it. As Christians, our goal is to maintain a...
View ArticleBe Teachable: Taking Advice
Learning From Mistakes One of the biggest mistakes I made when I was young (teenager up to age 30) was failing to be teachable, especially in the area of taking advice. I remember my mom encouraging me...
View ArticleCourse Corrections
Pilots make course corrections continually throughout a flight. If they don’t, the plane will end up far from its goal, maybe over an ocean and out of fuel. Several factors cause an airplane to get off...
View ArticleProgress Over Perfection
Partly because I’m a perfectionist and partly because I get easily frustrated over my apparent lack (or absence) of progress as well as the lack (or absence) of progress I see in others, I need...
View ArticleLife of Trees
In Spring 2018, I decided to read “The Hidden Life of Trees” by Peter Wohlleben. I still remember the “Why?” looks my family gave me when they found out what I was reading. Essentially, they thought...
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