Tag Archives: discipline

Get your groove on

When we make a decision and act, it builds a muscle. When we make it several times, we start to create a habit. After awhile, our decisions aren’t even conscious any more - they come naturally. Those habits become well-worn grooves on our path, helping to guide which way we go. Athletes develop grooves, being…
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Add to your Faith

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective…
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Running Off-Leash

“We do not train a dog to make them a robot. We train so we can afford them freedom.” If you know me, you know I love dogs. And, well, by virtue of being on this site you’ve figured that the Bible and my relationship with God encompass my life. When I saw this quote…
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Go for the prize

The stories of the Olympic athletes are inspiring. We see what they have overcome and what they have sacrificed in order to compete and win. At that level, it’s all or nothing. Our spiritual life is pictured as a race to be run. What is Paul communicating with this image? “Let us lay aside every…
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