Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “discouragement”
New and exciting is, well… new and exciting. We all love a new car, a new house a new stream of income and a new start. Here at the start of a new year it’s easy to think about new and exciting. The problem is, many of us are not doing anything new and exciting. We’re driving the same car, …
I had the joy of playing a concert with my buddy Mike Weaver of Big Daddy Weave Saturday night in Johnson City, TN. Mike and I met when I was 18 years old as we were ‘randomly assigned’ to be roommates in college. That was half my life ago. At age 36, standing beside my friend on the platform Saturday …
Nobody enjoys being disappointed. You plan, you get excited, your expectations grow and then it all falls flat. Truly, dealing with disappointment is just part of life. However, it is much more than learning how to navigate emotion or finding how to drown your sorrows in a bowl of ice cream! The enemy uses disappointment as a tool to ‘dis-appoint’ …
There are some things only time can teach you. I know we don’t want to believe that anymore with our vast ‘knowledge’ and access to instant information via the internet and so many connected devices. Yet, there is a difference between informational knowledge and wisdom. By now, most of us understand that having all the right information won’t produce a …
“I’m so stupid. I am such a screwup. I always break things. I knew I wouldn’t win.” On an average day you will hear statements like these come out of the mouths of countless people. I invite you to pay closer attention and see what I mean. Perhaps even you say such things? Sometimes statements such as these are said …
God has been talking to me about slingshots and rubber bands lately. I realize that may not seem like something God would really spend a lot of time talking about with people, but He knows what reaches me. When I was a little boy I had many slingshots. Some I bought. Some I made. Basically every ‘Y’ shaped stick I …