A few years ago I began to notice a pattern in my life. Namely that whenever I am getting to know someone new I will offer to drive us somewhere together—maybe to grab lunch or go run an errand, and the person will say Yes. The first time. That is also the last time.
The second time we go somewhere together, I’ll offer to drive and they’ll say, “No, no, no, I’ll drive.” I was fine with it, until I began to notice the pattern.
Namely, there’s something in my driving that made them not want to get in the car when I’m behind the wheel. I naturally began to wonder, “What’s wrong with my driving?”
I was on a walk in our neighborhood and caught this deer and dog “playing” with each other… I’ve never seen anything like it… watch to the end: Continue Reading…
Welcome to Week Three of Pursuing God’s Beauty: Stories from the Gospel of John. This summer, we’re digging deep into God’s Word and praying that with a word, passage, or story we will be wonderstruck by Scripture and fall in love with the Bible once again, or maybe for the first time. (Join us! Click here).
Here’s the homework for Week Three: When God Sees Through You: Continue Reading…
God fills all creation with beauty. God strings galaxies in the sky and submerges creatures in the depths of the sea, which have yet to be discovered. The heavens and earth declare the glory of God.Continue Reading…
This week, I’m giving away THREE copies of my friend, Craig Groeschel‘s, new book, Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are. Craig is the founder and leading pastor of LifeChurch.tv–which has 15 campuses in five different states and is considered the second largest church in the country. Craig, his wife, and their six kiddos live in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Altar Ego explores the idea that you are NOT who you think you are. Encouraging us all to evaluate our identity, lay it down on the altar, and sacrifice it. Give it to God. Offer it up.
Why?
Because you are who GOD says you are. And until you’ve sacrificed your broken concept of your identity, you won’t become who you are meant to be. When we place our false labels and self-deception on the altar of God’s truth, we discover who we really are as his sons and daughters. Instead of an outward-driven, approval-based ego, we learn to live with an ‘altar’ ego, God’s vision of who we are becoming.Altar Ego reveals who God says you are, and then calls you to live up to it.
