If you read my last post, you know that this week I’m talking about joy and how to get more of it in your life. Who couldn’t use more joy these day, right? To start off with let me ask you a question, have you ever noticed that we are

  Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Philippians 4:4 Hi, My Name is Paul For those of you not familiar with the book of Philippians, let me give you some background on this book.  There is a guy in the bible named Paul that God

We all want to be confident, right? The more confident we feel, the happier we are so we are all looking for ways to increase our confidence. In my last blog post I discussed that one of the places we turn to build our confidence is to our bodies and

Hi friends. As you may remember if you are following this blog (which I hope you are), last week I made the following syllogistic (I love that word) statements: 1)Your joy is dependent on how much you feel valued. 2) Your value is largely dependent on people so… 3) Your

In my last post, I started talking about Nehemiah, one of the great leaders of the Bible, who managed to get walls built around Jerusalem in a scant 52 days. If you read the post, you will remember that Nehemiah was moved to action by his love for his fellow

Today we are beginning a new series called “Love Does.”  Because here’s the deal with love.  Love isn’t just an emotion.  Love isn’t merely a feeling.  Love doesn’t just mean well.  Love doesn’t just hope for the best.    Love does. Love reaches out.  Love makes a change.  Sometimes love fights.

Where do you find your confidence?  When you feel really good about yourself what’s going on in your life?  Just like our joy and happiness is tied to our value, so is our confidence.  Would you agree that we are happier when we feel confident?  There are a lot of

Joy has been the topic of my last few blog posts and what we can do to maximize our Joy. As I hope I’ve shown, our joy depends a lot on other people and what they think of us; as we saw in Paul’s writings in the book of Philippians,

I want to start today off with a bedtime story.  For the next few minutes Uncle Jack is going to tell you a story so just sit back and relax, but don’t fall asleep. You won’t want to miss the ending: ONCE THERE WAS A YOUNG GIRL whose parents took

Last week we talked about running; this week and next, we are going to talk about chasing. We are all chasing something; this has been the case since Biblical times and probably before. Some of us are chasing money; some of us are chasing success in our careers (again money?).