Pain isn’t the enemy emotionally anymore than it is physically. Most of us do our best to avoid emotional pain. We bury it. We explain it away.
Think about the necessity of physical pain, though…
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People often have more confidence in the devil's ability to deceive-- and in the innate drive to sin-- than they do in the fact that we're created in the image of God, and we've been resurrected into ...
As we were going back and forth about the forward for the Claim Your Freedom book, JB and I sat in a pub in downtown Salt Lake City discussing “hard things.” He experienced his version of a few tough ...
The resurrection doesn’t remove the scars, it rewrites the ending of the story…
Sometimes that means the scars remain. They no longer control the story, but they are part of it- perhaps even a signif...
Back in 2014, a child-therapist my family visited for a season described stress in a revealing way. Kristen, the counselor, likened our souls to balloons…
(Yes, I have a lot of experience with counse...
September 2018 I did something I never imagined I would do: I took a psychological evaluation. A full one. The kind with hundreds of questions followed by a sit-down interview with a licensed psycholo...
The Bible tells us we're redeemed by the blood of the Lamb (i.e., 1 Peter 1:18-19). If this is true, it means that Jesus offers a facet of redemption (read: freedom) at each place He bled..
(To under...
In this short video we talk about how grace doesn't just change your eternal destination (i.e., what happens to you when you die), it also alters the ongoing experience of life now.
Let me explain......
I grew up in church— my Dad was the pastor. It's a longer story for another time and place (which I’m totally willing to share), but the blinders didn’t come off for me until I was in college.
I walk...
About 7 years ago I heard John Maxwell-- a leadership guru-- speak to a group of business leaders...
“If it’s not your dream,” he said, “then don’t do it. Do something else, do whatever your dream is...
Most of us live some sort of fixed routine. Your routine might be a “good” one or a “bad” one. Your daily routine might be intentional or it might be unintentional. Either way, you take specific actio...
One day, a lady named Mary stopped me in the halls at a business workshop. "I want to thank you for what you taught my husband at the recent Advance!" she said.
I explained that I'm not sure I could ...
