"It's a marathon, not a sprint." Good advice to hear when you're struggling with sticking to a discipline or trying to push through a difficult task. It's even good advice…
The news struck me as wonderful, but my friend looked at me with surprise when I reacted with a smile and "congratulations" at him, telling me that the company he…
"Home is where the heart is." "There's no place like home." "I'll be home for Christmas." OK, this could go on all day.
It seems we humans have an attachment to…
Why are some people "rule-keepers?" What is it about most of us that if we know the "rules" we seem to be fine with that? Of course, not everyone is…
Here’s a note we recently received from a faithful friend of Faith Encouraged:
“We need more of this straight talk to wake us up to the evil creeping paralysis especially for…
Sometimes you have to wonder why we so easily miss it. You know, the obvious stuff that, once we see it, we wonder how we missed it in the first…
A quote from Virgil's Aeneid says "The descent to hell is easy." And no one ever expects their good intentions to turn out bad. That's the "law of unintended consequences."…
It's never been "popular" to confront our very prideful and "autonomous" societies with the exclusive teaching that the only way to God the Father is through Jesus Christ. In fact,…
Why is it that we humans struggle with understanding certain things about life, technology, relationships, politics, and the list goes on and on? Well, it's got everything to do with…
It was a bit of a surprise to me. In fact, it was such an unexpected revelation about myself that I am still processing this information to this day. I…