Daily Challenges Archive

Last night I was talking with my accountability partner about ministry groups we lead and which ones we might need to begin handing off to others. One of his that I could tell he really loves involves approximately 4 hours of in-depth study in scr...

My Myers Briggs personality type is INFP. I’m a mediator. I also make decisions based more on intuition and feelings than facts. A commentary I just read mentioned that 20 people a year are killed by cows. Some people acting on this fact will avoi...

Jesus had callouses. The word that the King James Bible translates carpenter is Tekton. It literally means builder. In King James day they saw that builder as a carpenter. If you’ve been to Israel you probably realize that Jesus most likely was a ...

I saw a guy walking on a country road as I was driving to church at the lake yesterday. We exchanged a wave. I admired how I blessed him by noticing and acknowledging his presence. 90 seconds later it began to rain. I thought what a shame that he ...

This is not hard for the genuine follow of Jesus to understand. Those who are involved in religion rather than relationship will struggle to grasp this simple truth. They will long for ritual, systems, rules while those involved in a relationship ...

The image of the person who drinks too much and then becomes loud and ornery is common in film and tv, but also in life. If you’ve ever taken in a live sporting event, maybe not tennis, you have most likely witnessed an inebriated fan. Often they ...

It always intrigues me when an atheist complains about God either for something that happened or something that didn’t. It’s also fascinating that when they are asked why the are angry at someone they don’t believe in they get even angrier. It is ...

Facts are just an inconvenience to foolish people. The number one pillar of a biblical worldview is that God’s word is true, it’s infallible. It’s fact. Every social ill can be traced to dismissing, ignoring or just being ignorant of God’s opinion...

At the start of my ministry, over 40 years ago, a friend took me aside and told me the main thing I needed to watch for that could disqualify me from ministry. My mind flashed on a number of issues that had recently destroyed ministers and their m...

I recently shared with one of our founders what I believe God is leading our ministry to add over the next few months. He is a good friend and very successful business leader. I received this text from him shortly after our visit, “Pray to the Lor...

When I grew up trolls were “a being in Nordick folklore. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.” (Wikiped...

It is impossible to be completely unimpaired by the voices we allow into our heads. When we hear foolishness over and over it will muddle our thinking. The really dangerous version of this comes when we are so inundated by foolish talk that we don...