Your Thoughts Are Shaping Your Life

“When we continually give our attention to fear or resentment, those thoughts can become familiar patterns. We begin to notice more reasons to be afraid or more reasons to remain offended. But the same is true when we learn to turn our attention toward God’s faithfulness. What we choose to dwell on helps shape the way we live.”

Courageous

“Too often we are waiting for some great opportunity to do something significant for Christ. Yet the great opportunity is already before us. It is today’s work.”

Lessons from Ezra on Leading a Story You Didn’t Start

“In the book of Ezra, Ezra doesn’t even appear until chapter 7. That means more than half the book unfolds before the man for whom it’s named ever steps onto the scene. That observation stayed with me long after our sermon series in the book ended. The more I reflected on it, the more it resonated with my experience of leadership.”