A WHOLE MAN

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7 (NIV) When I come to the end of my life, I would like to think I will be able to say that I fought the good fight and finished the race that was set out before me. My race is to bring glory to God in all that I do and to raise, teach, and equip a generation to do the same. While in seminary, one of my professors asked me a tough question regarding the heart of why I am running my race. He asked me, “If you were to die today and you knew that there was a 100% chance of you going to hell when you died, would you still serve God?” It is not enough to just run the race if your heart is not in it. If Heaven, blessings, healing, peace, joy, strength, encouragement..etc is the reason why you run your race, then God is simply a means to an end. He is simply a way for you to attain __________ and if there were another way to get ___________ than you would pursue/serve that. As...

"Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans." Proverbs 16:3 (NIV) Dr. Albert Bartlett, an expert on compounding, gave this scenario. Let’s suppose you’re sitting in a water tight baseball stadium which seats over 50,000 people, and you’re handcuffed to the top bleacher. Let’s say a single drop of water is placed in the center of the stadium and is allowed to double at a rate of 1 time per minute. In other words, 1 drop doubled, equals two drops added to the stadium. The next minute, two drops doubled equals four drops, next minute, four doubled equals eight, and so on. How many minutes do you suppose you'd have before you'd drown? A few months? A few days? Get this — how about 49 minutes?! That’s right;  it would take only 49 minutes to drown completely! What’s even more remarkable is that at 44 minutes, the amount of water in the stadium would only be at 7%! It is unfortunate that so many of us believe that we have all the time in the wo...

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