One Month to Live Challenge: Day 29
Today we reflect upon our mortality. Do you have any unfinished business with those you love? Are you ready to meet God?
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One Month to Live Challenge: Day 26
Today’s conversation deals with the subject, “Staying the course when your life crashes.” Sometimes life crashes. With warning or without, the collisions of life come. How well do you live during these times? Your personal legacy may be forged in collision events. On a scale of one to ten, with one being totally following your …
One Month To Live Challenge: Day 24
Pastor Rick Benjamin hit a grand slam home run in his messages yesterday. Rick painted an artful mosaic of Leaving Boldly. Direct your web browser here to get inspired by Rick’s talk. Today’s reading reflects upon the items in life that represent, to you, an enduring legacy. Your childhood home, your grandmother’s diamond ring, your …
One Month to Live Challenge: Day 20
Have you ever been totally rocked by something that shook you to the foundation of your soul? “He was as healthy as an ox.” “Their marriage was so strong.” “Our business was doing unbelievably well.” These are some of the comments people say in response to events beyond their radar screen and control. When life …
One Month to Live Challenge: Day 19
The winds of change that we considered yesterday are not just external forces but internal too. Deep in the soul is the sense that a few deep changes could be helpful. Dis-ease in the soul is pandemic. Pastor and Mrs. Shook look at several sources of soul dis-ease. 1. Motion sickness. When people learn they …
57!!!!
Teresa Kress, part of the MCA ministry to incarcerated women, sent me an email today. The email had glorious news! 57 women responded to the invitation to trust in Christ as personal Lord and Savior. 57 names in the Book of Life. 57 personal transformations. 57 made alive in Jesus. 57! It is my understanding …
One Month to Live Challenge: Day 18
Pastor Kerry and Chris Shook ask us today, “Is nostalgia causing you to miss out on present opportunities?” (pg. 137) Change is all around us in virtually every aspect of living. Some welcome the fluidity of life and embrace its inherent changes, while others resist and continue to seek a today that is the same …
One Month to Live: Day 15
“Right now in your life do you have a relationship where the lines of communication are really breaking down?” (Shook, page 110) Of all the breakdowns there are in life, one of the most devastating is a breakdown in communication between people who love one another. Communication is the air a relationship breathes. Without that …
One Month to Live Challenge: Day 14
Thank you. Thank you very much! The Shooks make a tremendous statement on page 106: “Gratitude has the power to change us completely.” In my experience, I am most thankful when I have the most insight into value. For example, when I know the value of a kind word, I am very thankful to hear …
One Month to Live Challenge: Day 13
Yesterday we investigated the resolution of all out conflict. What do you do with everyday things that simply rub you the wrong way? They aren’t total conflicts, but they are like grains of sand in your socks. Their stuff just gets under your skin. The Shooks call these dear ones “Sandpaper people.” Stop what you …