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Go Against the Flow We live in a world that values material possessions, consumerism, and excess. Simplicity longed seemed like an unusual value to embrace, but in today's overstressed world it is looking more and more attractive. However, for Christians, simplicity...

If you really want to change your life, you must change something you do everyday. Aristotle said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act. It is a habit”. We need to work on allowing God to change both our thoughts and our actions together. The...

My wife and I once found ourselves stuck in a car that wouldn’t start in a terrible neighborhood in East LA at 2 a.m. The police came by and told us, “It isn’t safe for you to be here—you need to leave.” I explained I would love to, but my car wouldn’t start. They...

There was a time in my life when I felt like I had no purpose. The doorway to things I believed God had asked me to do seemed to be closed. I thought God was calling me into church planting, but all the doors slammed shut. I was a struggling insurance salesman who was...