by lecrae | Oct 15, 2010 | Around the Web
A great temptation of parenthood is imposing your desires and inclinations on your child. You love music so you want your daughter to be a musician. You’re a carpenter so you want your son to be a carpenter. Instead of forcing our desires on our children; I...
by lecrae | Oct 14, 2010 | Around the Web
There used to be some very crooked Russian olive trees in our back yard. The annoying thing about them was that their trunks grew more sideways than upward. Some were so low to the ground that I could hardly mow under them. I tried trimming them, but that didn’t...
by lecrae | Oct 13, 2010 | Around the Web
If you polish a piece of wood or a precious stone, you are actually putting a lot of scratches on parallel lines, until eventually those scratches form a brilliant reflective pattern. That is similar to what God is doing when he disciplines us. The Bible explains it...
by lecrae | Oct 12, 2010 | Around the Web
Did you know that God wants us to be winners? In the Bible it says, “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” God sees life as a race and he’s determined to make all those who believe in him into winners. Some people think of God as...
by lecrae | Oct 11, 2010 | Around the Web
Have you noticed how there seems to be a self-help book or support group to help us deal with every problem, weakness or addiction bothering us? Most of us believe that getting rid of the bad stuff in our lives will solve most of our problems. But Jesus taught that...
