Sowing and Reaping: You’re Always Planting Something
Every day, we're sowing into multiple facets of our lives, whether we mean to or not. Name a category — you're sowing into it. Doing nothing is still sowing into something. Your interest or your neglect is a seed. You don't get to opt out of the equation.
“I Don’t Know”
When you don't know, you're standing at a fork. One road leads to paralysis. The other leads to growth. You get to choose which one you walk down.
Give Me this Mountain
That was the land Caleb wanted. Not because he'd forgotten how frightening it was. Because he remembered exactly how frightening it was — and he asked for it anyway.
100% Guaranteed
Jimmy Carr put it this way: "Your goals will be beaten by your systems every time."
What I Learned the Day the Title Changed
But the one I struggle with most on expectations isn't a person. It's God.
What do you do when the God you've known since you were eleven years old — the God you surrendered your life to, the God with no limits on His ability — doesn't do what you expected Him to do?
I Don’t Want to Lose what I Got
"Green you grow, ripe you rot. If you just sit there and say 'I made it,' well — you're either moving forward or you're moving backwards. You're never in the same place. Growth doesn't come naturally just because it's in your nature. You have to practice it. You have to hone it.”
God’s Test
God tests us. We ask the question all day long: "Why does a loving God allow bad things to happen?"
Character: Turn Right, Not Left
Then at mile 14, my calf cramped. I'd never cramped once in training. Not one time. I stretched, I ran, it got worse. Soon both legs were locked up, and I spent the rest of the race walking through pain I hadn't trained for.
Great Expectations
Expectations are not dreams — they are one of the most complex and demanding realities of leadership. They involve constant tension across three interdependent forces…
