Helping the Whole World Find and Follow Jesus
“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe There is a story on John Piper’s Desiring God website which I believe illustrates the importance of seemingly small things.…
The fifth card in the hand you have been dealt is the most important. This fifth card is choices. Everything in life is a choice. Every second of every day we are choosing one thing or another. The choices card has the power to change all the other cards, because it controls all the other…
“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.” – Mahatma Gandhi Do you remember the Beatles song Eleanor Rigby? There are several lines that go like this: “Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear. No one comes near. Look at him working, darning…
“Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.” – C.S. Lewis Curly from the Three Stooges used to regularly say, “I’m a victim of circumstance.” That line sums up the thoughts of a lot of people today. Why? Because most individuals or groups are not all…
“I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.” – Gina Bellman The second card is connections. Connections means we are all products of the relationships in our lives. Each of us has a variety of relationships. Some are casual acquaintances, people we know a little bit about, but…