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It was the start of a new school year, and the teacher was calling out the names of students in the fresh third-grade class. She said, "Where's Gene?" The excited little boy raised his hand. The teacher said, "You'll probably be a mess just like your brothers were." Gene's face flushed with embarrassment. A few years earlier, he had been molested by his grandfather. His dad was no longer around, and then the teacher put the final negative word on him. For years, Gene dealt with negative self-image and all that comes with it as a fatherless boy. He gained...

Every day, we're hit with the equivalent of 174 newspapers worth of information. That's 29 trillion pieces of data vying for our attention. It's enough to make anyone’s head spin. But here's the thing - your ability to focus in this chaos isn't just about productivity. It's about your identity, your purpose, your legacy. So, how do we cut through the noise? Focus is the discipline of extracting yourself from the unnecessary. And brother, our most potent tool for this extraction? Prayer. Think about Jesus for a moment. God Incarnate, yet constantly bombarded with demands: ‘HEAL ME.’ ‘COME THIS WAY.’...

It’s easy to go negative in our world. Don't fall for it. Thousands of negative messages blast us each day. With each one, the memory center of our brain embeds that message, and then so often it becomes a repeating loop. Maybe we wake in the night and hear negative thoughts. Or we have "night terrors." But God's Word stops that. "You shall not be afraid of the terror by night" (Psalm 91:5 NKJV). Without intervention, the negative messages stack and can trigger a host of issues - becoming indecisive, making decisions in fear, simmering anger, and a blurry outlook...

God has no limits. A few years ago, I accidentally handed cash to a drug addict. What unfolded was astounding. I had walked into a church in Reno and was introduced to the volunteer at the resource table, Tim. Great, here's help, I thought. Tremendous. I handed him a cash bag with $120 to make change and gave him some simple instructions. What I didn’t know: Tim was a recovering addict fresh off the streets. For eight years, no one had handed him cash because it would just go up his nose or into his veins. In fact, Otto Kelly...

Nothing great happens without work. Nothing great happens without a tenacious spirit. Nothing great happens without the price of pain attached. We're all in a fight--a bruising battle for our families, our children, our nation, our future. Paul called it the "good fight of faith." It's a battle against the spirit of the anti-Christ that comes at us daily. It's a battle that Jesus already won. So, we fight with great faith. But - we fight. Faith in God is the foundation for a successful life. Faith gives power to our dreams. Then we have to go to work. James...