Thu // Warrior :: Defend
Title: Familiar with Risk? Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. – Psalm 82:3 Indeed, you are all familiar with the game of Risk. If not, here’s a brief rundown. You start by selecting your countries, and as the game progresses, you fortify around your frontlines. […]
Fri // Steel :: Truth
Title: Seek, Speak and live the truth Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. – John 8:32 “You can’t handle the truth!” Jack Nicholson utters the classic line as he sits on the witness stand in the movie A Few Good Men. The truth can hurt. Truth can be used […]
Fri // Steel :: Integrity
Title: Refined by the Fire Till I die I will not deny my Integrity – Job 27:5b Steelmaking is the process of producing steel from iron and ferrous ores and scrap. In steelmaking, impurities such as nitrogen, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, and excess carbon are removed from the raw iron. Alloying elements such as manganese, nickel, chromium, and vanadium are […]
Fri// Steel:: Strength
Title: Solid Wreckage “The Lord is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one” Psalm 28:8 In one of the locations I go to for work, there lies a 5-foot chunk of mangled steel. This chunk of steel has seen its better days. In its heyday, this chunk of steel supported […]
Fri // Steel :: Example
Title: Back pain Set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. – 1 Timothy 4:12b “Just Stop!” I screamed this as the therapist pushed and prodded on my back as I writhed in pain. She was trying to find the source of my pain to heal me […]
Tue // Fuel :: Spirit
Title: Desires of the Flesh So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. – Galatians 5:16 This verse is simple enough, right? This life can be such a battle sometimes, and what makes that battle harder, more times than not, is when we concede to the […]
Sun // Sacrifice :: Exalt
Title: Clean my lips Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his footstool; he is holy. Psalm 99:5 When I read this verse, I can only think of one thing…Isaiah. In Isaiah 6, the Lord gifts Isaiah with a vision. In his view, Isaiah gives this fantastic picture of being in the presence of the Lord. He describes the temple setting and angels within the temple. Isaiah […]
Wed // Grit :: Influence
Title: Be the Man Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. – 1 Corinthians 11:1 What do you think the writer of this passage (Paul) would have thought of his own words only a few years before the writing of this verse? Indeed, the idea of following Christ was foreign to him […]
Tue // Fuel :: Word
Title: Enter in with Expectations For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double- edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart – Hebrews 4:12 Alive, active, penetrates, divides, and judges. These are all verbs-words of action used […]
Wed // Grit :: Perseverance
Title: I Hate Running Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us… – Hebrews 12:1c Here’s the thing: I hate running! When the good Lord designed me, he did not have distance running in mind. This had no bearing on my college soccer coach, who insisted we run countless miles a day in Southern […]