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When athletes speak of ending their careers on a high, they want to be remembered as someone in their glory days and not as someone on the decline. Is your time to exit influenced by a need to protect your image? When we serve God’s kingdom, it’s not about protecting our image, it’s about being…

Has life become all about you? The more we focus on ourselves, the smaller our world gets. The Bible shows us that loving others is the way to enlarge our lives. Our world gets bigger when we invest in the welfare of others. Philippians 2:3-4 reminds us, “Do nothing out of rivalry or conceit, but…

What is the right balance between telling our stories versus telling God’s story? Matthew 5:13 says we are the light in the world. How are we to serve as light in the world? Do we ask God to bless our story or is that too self-centered and all about us? Learning from Jesus, He asked…

Solomon says in Ecclesiastes 1:14, “I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.” At first reading we are left with the message, “Why bother to do anything at all? Everything is in vain!” But Solomon’s conclusion at the end…

Are you ready to check out of the battle because you are tired of the challenges? While serving your heart out, some accuse you of lacking work life balance. Others find fault as spectators. They enjoy commenting from the sidelines. It helps me to think of life as when my house was flooded. When a…

Do you long to get clarity on how your story in God’s bigger story begins and how it will end? Hebrews 12:2 reads: looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand…

I used to feel sorry for those who lost everything. Some friends had to leave behind their country and all their assets to begin again in uncharted territory. When I found myself in a place where I had to reinvent myself, I saw those same friends as being blessed. You see, they were further along…

God is teaching me so much about what it means to serve with our whole heart. A trainer of service dogs tells me that the basic obedience most people view as obedience in their pups is not obedience at all. He said the authority structure is not in place. When you give a dog a…