Owning

What kind of character does it take to change the world? And where are those virtues found?

Your affections guide your journey. They can steer you down a narrow way with eternal, exponential influence, or to a dead-end place where your reward must be left behind.

Like a potter’s hands smoothly gliding over wet clay, so is the formation of a godly heritage. Recurring rash moments could damage the vessel and the legacy.  But gentle care will yield a beautiful expression of the artist and her God.

You can’t leave a legacy of Godly faith and practice unless you truly own it.

Hospitality has gotten a first-world makeover. In fact, it’s almost unrecognizable from the original design

What frames your internal world? Are the thoughts and intents of your heart a cluttered structure of wood, hay, and stubble, or do precious metal and costly stone form the building blocks of your life?

Like a downhill skier in the winter Olympics, the Christian often teeters between a winning run to the finish line and crashing into a snow bank. We’re constantly balancing between the liberty of the Gospel and the constraints of a holy life.

Your delegated power to shape a watching world begins in a place much more intimate. Fail there and the world stops watching.

There’s a biblical measurement that marks the influential Christian life. How effectively you impact the world, your neighbors and family for Christ hangs on that yardstick.