When you restore your computer, you don't need to set it back to its factory settings, you just need to reset it to a time before the problem began. So it is with you. When your circumstances trigger anxiety, fear, confusion, anger, sadness—don't default to old ways of coping. Some try to control everyone and …
Burning the Boxes
Don't downgrade your joy, your dreams, your faith, or your relationships to conform to what fear is saying about them. Every time you agree with a negative view of your life, you stuff your identity into ever–shrinking boxes to protect yourself from being hurt by what might go wrong. Every day those boxes have less …
Light Switch
Yes, if you keep looking into the dark, your vision will adjust, and you'll see the hate, hypocrisy, and corruption you've suspected are there. But the gloom has a way of transforming your righteous outrage into callous cynicism. Stay there long enough, and you'll become as bitter, self–centered, and cruel as everything else living in …
But the Greatest
This is from "The Greatest Thing in the World," by Henry Drummond, first published in 1880. It's a short book, but one of the most powerful ones I've ever read, and one I reread regularly. "The test of a man then is not, 'How have I believed?' but, 'How have I loved?' The test of …
Your Heart is Known
"Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said, 'Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!' " (John 1:47). Your heart is known. When that revelation hits you, it can be disturbing, even frightening at first, because you know what you're really like—all you've thought, said, and done. You realize how much the …
Equip Your Spirit 