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So many people dream big dreams. Dreaming big is easy. And many people give up dreaming. That is easy too. What is hard is dreaming visionary, authentic dreams. I have to admit that sometimes I get really, really tired of seeing the Facebook ads promising me that I can achieve overnight success if only I […]

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 identify progress with speed. And on occasion that is synonymous. But direction matters more. And sometimes direction isn’t as simple as we believe. C.S. Lewis said something to the effect that we think the guys running fastest are making the most progress. But sometimes, the guy walking in the opposite direction is the […]

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 […]

I was so delighted in Cuba. Delighted by what God did through me and our team for them. And delighted by how the Cuban church blessed me. My prayer going to Cuba was that just as we would bless the Cuban Church, so I would receive blessing from them. That was not a selfish prayer. […]

The journey to your best life may well weave. Learning is part of the process. We can’t go far in life, advance very highly, without failure. And failure always puts a crook in our path. After Monday’s post on embracing God’s design for my life, a reader asked me: “what if there are multiple pathways […]

You would think it would be easy to embrace God’s design for my life. After all, if it is what He designed us for, it should come naturally. Maybe it does for you, but for me it is a battle. I always had an incredibly clear sense of vision as a boy. A sense of […]

I have dreams! Big dreams. But here is the thing; big dreams come with big doubts. And sometimes the doubts become so big, I am afraid my dreams will die. Dreaming big is easy. Super easy if you have no plans of actually doing anything with them. Three kinds of dreaming But dreaming dreams that […]

Choosing between fear or faith is not just a one time decision. You get the opportunity to choose which one you’ll live by over and over again. And choosing fear is still easier. Even when you already know that faith brings much more joy and satisfaction in life. Making fear induced decisions sucks your sense […]