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Contentment is empowering. I underrated it for years. Partially because I couldn’t reconcile it with faith. I saw contentment as letting go of desiring a better future. And without desire, what is faith? Then I realized that contentment was one of those secret weapons to the best life that I was missing. Now it is […]

Living the best life is far more realistic than living the dream life. The best life takes into consideration your real life situations and redeems them and builds on those impossibilities. My dream life would be Justin Bieber’s life. A million fans, and a ton of money. Lots of fame. Okay, not sure I would […]

Sometimes we just need to put our heads down and power through. It is something that the intentional life design community often doesn’t talk about. But we would be foolish to believe that living intentionally would be a breeze all the the time. In fact, sometimes the best life is the harder path. The sense […]

Knowing how to deal with offenses is an important life skill to have. Everybody gets offended sometimes. Such is life. All of us meet people on occasion that do or say something that offends us. And we all have someone that finds the soft underbelly we all secretly posses, and then they throw grenades at […]

Putting God first in your life is the very first principle of living your best life. To me that is not optional. It is required. If you wish to live your best life, you will do it in right relationship with God. Some think that I overdo the best life emphasis. I don’t think I […]

I sometimes forget I was created to be a human being, not a human doing. Then I need to be reminded of what the difference is, so I can get back to being a human being. This morning in church, my pastor reminded me of that again. He talked about simplifying your life, borrowing from […]

When we think about Church, most of us think about either the building we go to on Sunday mornings or that thing we do on Sunday mornings. But Church can happen anywhere at any time. Church is simply a gathering of believers. A group of believers getting together and doing life together. So Church doesn’t […]

Some days I find myself wishing for a do-over at life. Life didn’t turn out much like I had hoped and even expected it would. I guess our dreams don’t account for the disappointments of life. But disappointments are part of life. If you had asked me at 18 where I would be and what […]

If you wish to live the best life, then you need to learn to do the one next right thing now. Not tomorrow’s thing, not today’s list. Just do the one next right thing. Perhaps a lifestyle of doing the one next right thing is the closest you can come to living in faith. Such […]

What would Jesus do? What is that question to you? Is it fashion wear or a way of life? What if it translated into more than just the letters “WWJD” on a bracelet, and made a real difference in how we live? When I first read the book “What Would Jesus Do” by Charles M. […]