Tag: Faith
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 to Honor What is Truly Valuable”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Birthright, Childish Mindset, Esau, Eternal Dividends, Eternal Values, Eternal Wealth, Eternity, Faith, God's Values, Hope, Jacob, Long-Term Thinking, love, Relationships, Ruth, Short-Term Happiness, Short-term Thinking, The Prize, Treasure, True Wealth, Valuable, Values, Wealth
For some reason it’s painful to admit that I’m not a handyman. Sure, I have taught myself how to fix some things around the house. But, I have also created a lot of messes. The bottom-line issue has almost always been to save money.… Continue Reading “Choosing From Where I Seek Help”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Faith, Final Authority, Fix, Fix it, Fix me, Help, Help me, I am needy, I can't fix myself, I have needs, Looking for help, Psalm 121, Secure, Security, Trust, Trusting God, Truth
Posted on November 28, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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“He will order His angels to protect you.” These words from Psalm 91 are a great comfort for many people right now. It says in verse 6, “Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday” (NLT). What a… Continue Reading “Choosing to Believe Anyway”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Belief, Believe, Believe God, Complaining, Discounting God, Doubt, Doubting God, Faith, fear, Goodness of God, Remember, Remember what God has done, Temptation, Temptation to doubt, Testing God, Trust, Trust God, Trusting God, Unbelief, Wrestling with doubt
Posted on November 14, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I was in Lhasa, Tibet the first time I saw someone physically bow in worship to a statue. The Buddhist temple was filled with smoky incense, and dozens of people prostrated before a grinning image. Sunday-school stories of the ancient Israelites giving offerings to… Continue Reading “Choosing Real Love”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: A good future, Artificial Love, Character of God, Choosing the Highest Good, Confused Love, Enduring Love, Faith, Faithfulness of God, God, God is Good, God Is Love, God's Goodness, Holy Love, Hope, Idol Worship, Idolatry, Idolatry of love, love, Love is God, Love you till I don't, Never ending Love, Pure Love, The Father's Love, The highest good, Tough Love, Unconditional Love, Unfailing Love, Worship
Posted on October 24, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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How many plans have been started with grand vision and then abandoned because of how insignificant and underwhelming the idea later felt? My visionary follow-through often struggles. Emotions of discouragement settle in when the glorious things I imagine don’t swiftly materialize. Not seeing an… Continue Reading “Choosing to See Beyond What’s in Front of Me”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Ashamed, Broken Pieces, Broken Places, Despair, Effective Faith, Embarrassed, Embarrassing, Faith, Feeding the 5000, Great Faith, Hope, Hope filled, Hopeful, Hoping, Immediate outcome, Insignificance, Insignificant, Littlest, Loaves and Fishes, Long Suffering, Mustard Seed of Faith, Patience, Persevere, Perseverence, Seeing, Small Beginnings, Small Faith, Smallest, The Least of These, The Lord's Work, Trust, Trust God, Trust in the Lord, Unashamed, Unredeemable
Posted on August 22, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I first became a homeowner when I was 25. It was a small run-down rental in a suburb of Sacramento, California. My wife and I decided we could buy it at a good price and “fix it up” ourselves in preparation for our soon-to-arrive… Continue Reading “Choosing My Building Materials”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Building Materials, Cheap materials, Costly, Eternal Life, Eternal Reward, Eternity, Faith, Gold, Goodness of God, Hay, Heaven, Heavenly Dwelling, Heavenly Treasures, Hope, Jewels, Long-Term, love, Precious Stones, Sacrifice, Short-sighted, short-term, Silver, Straw, Trust, Wood
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
Posted on March 21, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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It was a cold night in late October when I saw Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, Russia with my own eyes. I was carrying my one-year-old son, and my wife had the hands of our other two small children as we hurried across Red… Continue Reading “Choosing Redemption for My Imagination”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Anxiety, Belief, Believe, Create, Creative, Creativity, Dark Thoughts, Evil Thoughts, Faith, Hope, Hopeful, Imagination, Imagine, lust, Mind, Pride, Redeem, Redeeming, Redemption, Seeing, Seen, The Mind, unseen, Visualization, Visualize
Posted on August 9, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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How many plans have been started with grand vision and then abandoned because of how insignificant and underwhelming the idea later felt? My visionary follow-through often struggles. Emotions of discouragement settle in when the glorious things I imagine don’t swiftly materialize. Not seeing an… Continue Reading “Choosing to Give What I Have”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Faith, Feeding the 5000, Fishes and Loaves, Gifts, Insignificant, Little, Miracle, Mustard Seed Faith, Obedience, Obey, Offering, Small, Small Beginnings, Small lunch, Too Little, Too Small
Posted on December 7, 2020
by Jeff Herringshaw
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It’s December 7th–Pearl Harbor Day. Seventy-nine years ago, the Empire of Japan launched a surprise aerial attack on the American naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii. In the harbor, 21 American ships were sunk or damaged, leaving over 2400 American servicemen killed that morning and… Continue Reading “Choosing to Remember”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Communion, Faith, fear, Memories, Pearl Harbor, Remembering, Remembrances, Testimonies, The Lord's Supper, Trust, World War 2