What is it about children and their selective hearing? They conveniently fail to perceive instructions or warnings they don’t like. But if a parent for some reason does not follow through with something he said he might do, there is a predictable mantra shouted:… Continue Reading “Choosing to Trust Again”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Anticipating, Blood oath, Commitment, Covenant, Covenantal Love, Cynic, Cynicism, Endurance, Endure, Eternal, Eternal Life, Eternity, Faith, Faithful, Faithfulness, God, God's Character, Hope, I promise, It's not over, Jesus, love, Patience, Patient, Pledge, Promise, Promise Keeper, Promises, Reliable, Renewal, Return of Christ, Take Heart, Trust, Trustworthiness, vows, Wait, Waiting
Posted on January 20, 2025
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I had a professor in college who challenged all of us to be passionate . . . about anything. Throughout the semester he often said that it didn’t really matter what we were passionate about, just that we cared deeply enough about a cause,… Continue Reading “Choosing What I am Passionate About”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Affection, Affectionate, Affections, Apathy, Augustine, Beatles, Beauty, Eternal, Eternally Valuable, Eternity, Eye of the beholder, Feel Deeply, Feel Strongly, Feelings, Goodness, Got to Get You Into My Life, Greatest Good, Justice, love, Love God, Love Jesus, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, No Apathy, Ordo Amoris, Passion, Passionate, Passionate love, Rightly Ordered Loves, Strong Feelings, Valuable, Worthy, Worthy of Love
I realize now there was one central reason I played sports as a kid. I wanted to belong. There were some bright moments on the high school football team, but I knew I would never be a star player. It was the opportunity to… Continue Reading “Choosing the Direction of My Love”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Affection, Augustine, City of God, desires, Desires for God, Desires of the flesh, Destiny, Direction, Eternal, Eternity, Heaven, Hell, Kingdom of Darkness, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of this world, love, Loving the world, Loving the wrong person, Loving the wrong thing, misguided love, Purpose, Saint Augustine, Selfish, Selfishness
I traveled quite a bit when my children were young. I led outreach teams to foreign countries and could be gone for several weeks at a time. We didn’t have a lot of money, and so when it came to bringing gifts home to… Continue Reading “Choosing Treasure Not Easily Seen”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Appetities, Blind, Can't See, Christ, Dividends, Eternal, Eternal Dividends, Eternally Wealthy, Eternity, Faith, Future, God, Happiness, Happy, Heavenly Father, Hidden Treasure, Hidden Value, Hidden Values, Holy Spirit, Hope, I can't see, Immediate Gratification, Invest, Investments, Jesus, love, Open Eyes, Physical Appetites, Redeem, Redemption, Salvation, See, Seeing Eyes, Self Indulgment, short-term, Short-Term Happiness, Short-term mindset, Temporal Pleasure, Treasure, True Wealth, Values, Wealth
Posted on January 22, 2024
by Jeff Herringshaw
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It’s a classic idea for a romance story. A prince, a princess, or a wealthy heir for some reason goes undercover and lives as an ordinary, unassuming character. In the course of everyday life, someone gets to know the royal or moneyed individual as… Continue Reading “Choosing to See Glory Next Door”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Children of God, CS Lewis, Daughters of God, Eternal, Eternal Glory, Eternal Inheritance, Eternity, Fame, Famous, Famous with God, Glorified with Christ, Glorious Future, Glory, God sees me, God's Approval, Heavenly Applause, Hidden Identiy, Hope, Hope of Glory, Love Story, No ordinary people, Prince, Princess, Seek first His Kingdom, Shared Glory, Sons of God, The Weight of Glory, Unfading Glory, Unimaginable Glory, Well done good and faithful servant
Posted on May 9, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Most people have done things they look back upon and view as a bit wacky. “What was I thinking?” Sometimes they were done for love. Sometimes they were done to relieve boredom. Sometimes they were done for the thrill and attention. And sometimes they… Continue Reading “Choosing to Live Sensibly”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Big Picture, choices, Commitment, Committed, Confidence, Counter Cultural, Courage, Craziness, Crazy, Eternal, Eternity, Faith, Faithful, Faithfulness, Follower of Jesus, Heavenly Values, Insane, Insanity, Jesus Followers, King Jesus, Kingdom of God, Loyal, Normal, Paul the Apostle, Radical, Saint Paul, Sanity, Trust, Trust in God, Trustful, Trustworthy, Worldly Values
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