But I Want to Help Everybody
Trying to Help Everyone Can Make It Hard to Help Anyone Trying to do too much is something I’ve struggled with for most of my life. I see people struggling with things, and I want to help them. I believe helping others is how we’ve been called to live. The problem is that some people […]
Use Your Gifts, Don’t Bury Them
They’re Worth Nothing If They Aren’t Used We continue our discussion this week about the gifts God has given us. Too often, we see our talents as less valuable than what other people have. When we do this, we are essentially saying that God didn’t know what He was doing when He gave us our […]
Routines Are an Important Part of Being Productive
But They Can Also Be Roadblocks A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how building a business is like getting a new smartphone. Well … I did it! I now have a new smartphone. In that post, I also told you how long I thought the process would likely take. And sure enough, it did. […]
Maybe One of These Is Your Gift
Continuing the Gift Hunt We all have God-given gifts. They are part of who God made us to be. Too often, we just float through life without giving any real thought to what our gifts are. We’ve been discussing gifts over the past several weeks. We started by learning to be aware of our gifts […]
How Do You Decide What’s Most Important?
This Is One of the Hardest Things to Do Over the past few weeks, we’ve discussed how life is a series of choices and how hard it can be to decide what to do first. I was already planning to talk more about how unexpected things can mess up our plans. Earlier this week, I wrote […]
I Trust Him in the Storm
An Example of How We Should Trust A couple of months ago, Pastor Lisa shared about the overwhelming egg situation and how we need to focus on just the first next thing. It’s easy to let big things crush us. It is important to remember that we don’t have to go through things alone. We […]
Building a Business Is Like Getting a New Smartphone
But the Time and Effort Are Worth It in the Long Run For the past several weeks, we’ve been discussing how bullheaded contractors can be and how so much of it comes down to making choices. And making those choices can be hard. I talk with a lot of self-employed people in the construction business, […]
A Body Is Not Just One Thing
It Takes a Lot of Different Parts The human body is a complicated and interesting thing. It is amazing how all the different parts of the body work together, allowing us to do what we do. But when something happens to one part, the whole body is affected. In 1 Corinthians 12:12-27, Paul tells us […]
Deciding What To Do First Is Hard
The Biggest Fire May Not Be the Most Important Two weeks ago, we discussed how hardheaded and stubborn people in the construction business can be. Last week, we talked about making choices. I think one of the reasons we struggle with decisions and become set in our ways is not knowing what to do first. […]
What Gifts Do You Have?
It Doesn’t Matter, They All Come from God Last week we talked about being gifted and how, if we don’t use those gifts, they are of no value. Too often, we see our gifts as less important than the gifts others have, so we keep them to ourselves. But that’s not how God intended it […]