Owning an easel doesn’t make you Picasso, just like standing in a garage doesn’t make you a car. You can be whatever you want to be as long as you try hard enough. That statement couldn’t be further from the truth. We all have God-given gifts and abilities. You cannot…
Do you struggle to get focused and STAY FOCUSED in order to come up with creative ways to deal with the tasks in front of you? The necessities of life often STEAL MY CREATIVE ENERGY. Right before I sit down to be creative, A “TO DO” LIST WILL POP INTO…
The most valuable commodity we have is time. When you can’t control your time it shows that you are out of control in a key area. If you block out a time for an appointment and you get busy doing other things or something takes longer than expected, that person…
How would you feel if your child or a friend made a mistake and then decided that because he had made a mistake, he never wanted to talk to you again? I hear people say, “I don’t talk to God because I feel like he’s mad at me.” They have…
IN GOD’S EYES, WHAT IS SUCCESS? True success is finding out what God wants you to do – and doing it. This is different for each of us. YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO OFFER You will make a tremendous impact on this world if you will do what God has commissioned…
If you find it difficult to like yourself, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Many of us struggle with self-rejection during certain periods of our lives and on any given day, we are our own worst critic. There is enough in the world that is against us, so WE NEED TO BE…
Have you ever pictured having a door on your lips? A door that can slam shut would be the most useful. The bible says, “Set a guard over your mouth, keep watch over the door of your lips.” (Psalms 14:13) Have you ever had THE DOOR WIDE OPEN and said…
Sometimes I listen to the world so much that I do not allow God to work in my life. I deceive myself into believing “if times were better” I’d get further faster. I could make that dream happen! HERE’S WHAT I DON’T ALWAYS DO ·Move out and do what God…
When the Lord asked me to build the second church campus which was an additional 150,000 square feet, I was freaking out because the economy was really jacked. The media was screaming that we were in a recession. Some of my friends across the country, including pastors, were going bankrupt…
There are many people in churches that are HEADING SOMEWHERE BUT THEY AREN’T ENJOYING THE JOURNEY. They are allowing tragedies and problems to hold them back. I see one person at a hospital just trying to be brave and forge through the day TRYING TO WALK AGAIN. Then I meet…
When the potter puts the clay on the center of the wheel and it begins to spin, the centrifugal force begins to push the clay into the hands of the potter. Such as when God, our Potter, sticks his thumbs and hands into us which feels like its DIGGING, yet…
Did you play with Playdoh as a little kid? I used to love playing with Playdoh. It was one of my favorite things, but my younger brother would leave the lid off causing it to dry out. It’s amazing how STIFF AND DIFFICULT it is to mold Playdoh when it…
