Daily Challenges Archive

Casting a glance at your financial situation does not mean it is not a legitimate concern. As a matter of fact, Scripture also encourages being a good steward of what you have been blessed with. It is hard to do that without paying some attention ...

I recently had a very visual experience that illustrates what Solomon is talking about in this passage. Yesterday, on our trip to Sarasota, my son’s girlfriend, who is a sea turtle specialist and researcher, took some of my grandchildren to the be...

Recently, I heard one of my favorite comedians doing a routine about getting into disagreements with his wife. It was very entertaining, and the conclusion was that, no matter how hard he argued, he always ended with the admission that she was rig...

I have eight grandchildren. If you have grandkids, you know what an amazing testimony they are to God’s desire that life must go on. I’ve mentioned before how much fun they are and how they constantly amaze and surprise me. The other day, I was in...

Thankfully, it’s not a prerequisite that you have to be poor to be blameless, nor are all the rich people those with perverse lips. We can probably all agree that it is foolish to speak perversely. At least, we certainly should. This is typical of...

When I was in high school, there was a musical making its way around churches that included a song that went, “There’s power in the name, power in the name, power in the name of Jesus.” Solomon is basically telling us the same thing here. Although...

We often see and hear this verse when someone is talking about their closest friends. That is quite an honor—to be known as that kind of friend. The depth of this truth goes to places some of us don’t even realize exist, at least not until we actu...

When my kids were young, they spent a couple of years at a Christian school. Part of the attraction was that they taught every subject, from science to P.E., as a reflection of our Creator. They taught math with a foundational understanding that i...

In some of the training we do on influencing your world for Christ, I often talk about the fact that it didn’t take Jesus nearly as long as it takes us to speak into someone’s deepest needs because He could see into their hearts. For us, it often ...

I’ve talked about being messy mortals. Rick Riordan wrote about messy immortals: “Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is remind each other that we’re related, for better or for worse… and try to ...

Lost people typically have an insatiable appetite for sin. Sometimes they pursue particular sins with an appetite that drives them deeper and deeper into darkness. Those trapped in sexual sin, alcoholism, or even the pursuit of money and power wil...

Those in the world of theology who keep up with such things would tell us that this represents one of the 8,800 promises God makes to us in Scripture. The righteous cannot be uprooted. That’s the promise. It should give great comfort and encourage...