Forged By Faith

John 14:6 NIV The Exception For when the exception to the rule is the same as He who won the rule over both death and thus too life, then the truth is that we’re either living right within His eyes, and thus have welcomed Him into our lives, and are thus living in light of the love that laid down His for us to do so, or we’re not. Because the simple fact is that if Christ truly is the Way, the Truth, the Life, then well, the only obvious way to live life is in truth. And thus the humility met within our honesty is the only right direction to go. At least if we want to live, that is. And we should, because, well, life is good. Living is nice. Being alive a gift that we've both been given and thus one we never should have given away to what has become the many reasons for the death we owe as chosen in what has long been our taking exception to the very suggestion as to the rule of another. Rather we’ve long sought to see only ourselves upon the throne that is our heart. And we’ve now...

Hebrews 12:2 NIV What is our goal? What is our purpose? What are we doing, why are we doing it, and does it mean as much to us as it should? Often times I don't think we ask ourselves enough questions. We all kind of tend to find these little grooves in life where we can convince ourselves that we're doing things right because we keep getting satisfactory results. And if we keep getting results that are good enough, then we must be doing something okay. And we're always more than fine settling for okay because we know better requires more effort. But honestly, if we're not constantly taking stock of where we are, what we're doing, and why we're doing it then we're likely just going through the motions and missing out on both chances to improve and opportunities to notice issues that have started growing under the surface. When it comes to our faith, it should be a daily thing to take a minute and ask ourselves some questions. We can't afford to settle in...

1 Timothy 4:12 NIV Whenever we hear the word leader we think of president and kings. We think of those who are rich and famous. We think about the people who get all of the attention as the ones who are the leaders. But what if I told you that leadership is a little closer to home than Washington DC or Hollywood? What if I told you that you all of us are leaders, or at least that we have the opportunity to be? I’m pretty sure that gets lost behind all these other things that we’re doing or trying to be. We get stuck trying to be like the world so that people like us. We get used to following others because it’s so much easier than leading the way ourselves. We think that being a leader takes a famous name or a massive bank account. And when we see life and our position in it that way then we’re never going to think of ourselves as leaders. We’ll just let someone else take that role. But friends, we can’t afford to just hope for the best. We can’t assume that the leaders that so many ar...