The church tends to hold up a standard of “biblical manhood” that simultaneously emasculates men (you are helpless to control your sexual urges) and beastifies them (you must RULE your marriage and family and keep them under control). Neither approach reflects...
Among the worst failures of evangelicalism has been the damage done to people’s opinions about Jesus himself. Evangelical leaders wanted to be understood as speaking for Jesus, and unfortunately, many have accepted that claim and therefore rejected both them and their...
If you have always been short, chubby, and slow, and your sense of success means playing on an NBA team, failure will be your lot in life. If, however, you are pleased to play on a local playground team with other short, chubby, and slow people, and you have a...
The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history. from The Five Love Languages
This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good. What I do today is very important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving something...
God,Grant that I may pass through the coming year with a faithful heart. There will be much to test me and make weak my strength before the year ends.In my confusion I shall often say the word that is not true and do the thing of which I am ashamed. There will be...
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Our challenge is to have faith--in failure, in success, in whatever life brings. The unexpected turns, the painful endings, the precarious beginnings are all part of the path of faith, where we are reminded with each step that the Resurrection did not happen only once...
If you hear a voice over your shoulder talking about your biggest failure and it isn’t calling you ‘beloved,’ it isn’t Jesus talking.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.