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Christian character: three sermons and a movie

admin — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:49:32 +0000

Over the last three weeks, I have had the opportunity to learn three valuable lessons from three great teachers at Ada bible church. Once again, these are not new things but timely reminders of how we as Christians should be developing our character as we seek a stronger more vibrant walk with God.

The first was on humility, the second on gratitude, and the third on generosity. All of these are key elements in growing your relationship with God and becoming more like Jesus. I encourage you to go to adabible.org and listen to all three messages, they were all great.

God provided a great opportunity last night as I watched a movie that seem to summarize and visualize what it means to see these three characteristics working in concert together. I watched the hallmark movie The Christmas Shoes (bring tissues if you watch it). It’s an amazing story of both a mans journey from selfish workaholic to self less humility, generosity, and gratitude, and a boys journey to give his mom one last special gift before she goes to meet Jesus.

As these two stories continually cross paths, you are taken through a journey that helps better understand how God is in control and everything happens for a reason. More importantly you see love, forgiveness, and transformation happen. It is one of the better depictions of what Christian character and these three characteristics I have seen in a long time.

Along with the sermons mentioned above, I recommend this movie as well. This is the type of thing we all need to do more of. Love and serve others and serve others in their times of need and trust that God will take care of us.

A bit more about community

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:15:46 +0000

Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection,* and take delight in honoring each other.
Romans 12:9-10, NLT

This verse came into my inbox this morning after my previous post…. I thought it fit well…

I know i struggle to love others well…How well do you love others?

Good Advice – All parents need to hear

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:47:53 +0000

The words you speak from NewSpring Church on Vimeo.

Learning from indiana

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:12:32 +0000

Last night I was assisting with an event for work and had a great opportunity to hear an author speak. She had a simple but important message…

Love well…laugh often…live for Jesus

Really that is what life should be all about. Simple and to the point…

I’ve heard similar statements before but maybe it hit me because of where I’m at now…whatever the reason, it’s an important reminder for us all

What do you think?

Zig Ziglar

admin — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:40:06 +0000

The most important persuasion tool in your entire arsenal is integrity. Zig Ziglar

The Last Ten Percent – Seth Godin

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:38:06 +0000

(excerpted from Hardly worth the effort – Seth Godin’s blog)

In most fields, there’s an awful lot of work put into the last ten percent of quality…

The last ten percent is the signal we look for, the way we communicate care and expertise and professionalism. If all you’re doing is the standard amount, all you’re going to get is the standard compensation. The hard part is the last ten percent, sure, or even the last one percent, but it’s the hard part because everyone is busy doing the easy part already.

The secret is to seek out the work that most people believe isn’t worth the effort. That’s what you get paid for.

Distraction: The Enemy Of Us All

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:00:29 +0000

Eventually distraction becomes more than something that just happens to us, but actually becomes who we are. We are distraction. We flit from one thing to the next whether or not we are summoned by a beep. So shaped are we by our beeps, that we lose our ability to focus for any longer than the average beep allows. We become people of the beep.

If we are to be people who survive all of the distraction, if we are to be people of virtue who control our technologies instead of being controlled by them, if we are to be people who live lives that rise above the beep, we will need to examine the ways in which our technologies distract us, in which they tell us what is most important at any given moment. And we will need to realign our priorities and perhaps redraw our lives. We will need to own those beeps that so badly want to own us. – Tim Challies

Full Article: The People Of The Beep

Steve Furtick

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Don’t ACT more confident. BE more confident. Big difference.

Zig Ziglar

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:00:00 +0000

You need to consider your attitude as seriously as you would consider the largest purchase of your life.

What effects you?

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:31:00 +0000

It’s amazing how powerful music is in my life. This morning I am sitting at panera and listening to a couple of albums by Britt nicole and they are so inspiring. I really love starting my day with that kind of message.

One of the best decisions I ever made happened years ago when I decided to listen to music by Christians exclusively (well as exclusively as I can). Why? Because I realized how much power music (especially the lyrics) had with me. One day I realized the influence “general” music was having on me and I did not like it.

So for you…what is it that has a profound influence on you? Is it music? Is it books? Is it the opinions of other people? Whatever it is, what messages are you receiving and do they need to change?

It’s amazing how the messages we receive have an effect on us. “guard your heart for it is the well spring of life”