Responsibility

4 Get up, for this matter is your responsibility, and we support you. Be strong and take action!” (Ezra 10:4 CSB) Taking responsibility is not always easy. Whether it is something personal or in business, when we are strong and take action we are taking responsibility. In this we must be prepared for the consequences … Read more

Strength in Weakness

10 So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and in difficulties, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:10 CSB) The world does not recognize strength in weakness. It sees only success through the eyes of strength and confidence. However, when we consider people … Read more

Lasting Value

15 For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate. (Romans 7:15 CSB) Do you ever find yourself doing something that you know is not in keeping with your values? Maybe it is just letting yourself get overly angry. … Read more

Abide

7 If you abide (remain) in me and my words abide (remain) in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you. (John 15:7 CSB) Many may read this and miss the central point. They see “ask whatever you want and it will be done for you” and then get disappointed when … Read more

The Extra Mile

41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. (Matthew 5:41 NIV) When we go the extra mile we then to consider this a work of simply doing more. However, the real though behind this is to bear another’s burden longer than would seem necessary, to walk beside someone throughout … Read more