Don't Make Your Age Your ExcuseJoshua 14:11"As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me.Caleb was eighty-five when he asked for his mountain. He did not spend his later years talki...  Read More

Don't Let What You Can't Do Stop What You CanMark 14:8"She has done what she could."Jesus' words about the woman who anointed Him are wonderfully freeing. He did not say she did everything. He said sh...  Read More

Psalm 42:5"Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God.Some Sundays you arrive ready to shout. Other Sundays you arrive carrying something heavy. Scripture make...  Read More

Don't Carry What Belongs to Somebody ElseGalatians 6:5"For each one shall bear his own load."Compassion does not require you to take responsibility for everybody else's choices.You can love people, pr...  Read More

Don't Let Your Gift Outgrow Your CharacterProverbs 22:1"A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches."Talent can open doors, but character determines what happens after you walk through them. ...  Read More

Don’t Confuse Correction with Rejection Psalm 141:5“Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness. And let him rebuke me; it shall be as excellent oil.”Correction rarely feels like kindness when...  Read More

Don't Confuse Correction with RejectionPsalm 141:5"Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness. And let him rebuke me; it shall be as excellent oil."Correction rarely feels like kindness when ...  Read More

Don't Let Hurry Make You CarelessProverbs 19:2"He sins who hastens with his feet."Hurry has a price. When you rush, you miss details, overlook people, make assumptions, and sometimes create problems t...  Read More

Ask the Better QuestionJohn 5:6“Do you want to be made well?”Jesus asked a man who had been sick for thirty-eight years what sounded like an obvious question. But sometimes we become so accustomed to ...  Read More

Don't Let Envy Eat Your JoyProverbs 14:30"A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones."Envy rarely announces itself. It slips in quietly when someone else gets the opportuni...  Read More

Don’t Just Hear the Music 2 Chronicles 5:13–14“When the trumpeters and singers were as one… the house of the Lord was filled with a cloud.”Corporate worship is more than music performed while you watc...  Read More

Stop Saving the Good Stuff Proverbs 3:27“Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.”We save compliments for funerals. Flowers for special occasio...  Read More