I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
02151 – I Am Not…I Am
read more
02137 – Has God Fallen in Love with You?
Have you ever considered that God has fallen in love with you...? He sends you flowers every spring. He sends you sunshine every morning. Whenever you want to talk he listens to you. He can live anywhere in the universe, but he chose you, your heart. God didn't...
02064 – A Distant Dream?
I believe that God made the world, set humans in responsibility over it, and chooses to communicate to us the nature of moral goodness and a rightly ordered world — even if sometimes it seems a distant dream. from After Evangelicalism
02055 – Do Better than They Did
If you ever get the chance to treat them the way they treated you, no matter how painful it was, I hope that you choose to walk away and do better.
02013 – A Million Reasons
If you want to, you can find a million reasons to hate life and be angry at the world. Or, if you want to, you can find a million reasons to love life and be happy. Choose wisely.
01969 – You Alone Get to Choose
At the end of your time here, the world will either be more or less kind, compassionate, generous, funny, creative, and loving because of your presence in it--and you alone get to choose. from Hope and Other Superpowers
01940 – Letting God Choose My Path
It is presumptuous of me to wish to choose my path, because I cannot tell which path is best for me. I must leave it to the Lord, who knows me, to lead me by the that which is best for me, so that in all things His will may be...
01802 – Longing for Relationship
At the heart of each of us is a compelling hunger for ways to live and be in relationship that are genuine. Too often we choose ways that enslave rather than free us, and so it is with churches as well. What the world longs for are people and churches who have found...
01764 – Humanity Has a Choice of Action
[from his time as an inmate at Auschwitz:] The experiences of camp life show that humanity does have a choice of action. There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. Humanity can preserve a...
01754 – Space Between Stimulus & Response
Between stimulus and response there is a space... In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.