Living The Life

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The ancestor of every action is thought.” We do what we do because we think what we think. We believe lies, and those lies affect our lives as if they were true. We believe lies like, “I’m not important unless I’m successful,” and “No one could ever love me,” and “When…

To admit it may require an uncomfortable level of honesty. The realization may only break into our thinking in a fleeting moment of clarity. But under the surface, it’s always there. Like a throbbing pain suffered so long we’re able to ignore the constant discomfort. We’re stuck. Our “stuckness” may take different forms  – relational,…

There’s a lot of debate lately about whether or not there’s a hell. It even scored the cover of Time magazine. Well, of course there’s a hell. Jesus spoke of it often and there’s hard core evidence that we can believe in Him and what He taught. And God is a gentleman and won’t force…

I think Jesus is actually too tough for most people. Too strong, too powerful, too convicting, too revolutionary. When He walked the earth, almost no one was willing to follow Him. And it wasn’t because He was too weak, or effeminate, or mild. No, it was because people were intimidated by Him and His challenge…

Been sharing some thoughts on sublimation, which is basically replacing a negative with a positive. Yesterday we talked about replacing unhealthy actions with healthy one’s.  Important.  But there’s a type of sublimation that is far more critical. All those selfish and self-destructive behaviors we do, why do we do them?  When you get to the…