Tag: God's love
Sometimes we hear words over and over and yet never really think about the depth of their significance. Words such as faith, hope, and love are examples of ideas we talk about often as Jesus followers. They’re in the Bible, yet sometimes we need… Continue Reading “Choosing to Follow Wonder”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Amazement, Awe, Awesone, Beautiful, Beauty, Captivated, Childlike Wonder, Enraptured, Eternal Life, Eternity, Faith, Faith of a child, Fascinated, Fascination, First man on the moon, Full of Wonder, Glorious, Glory, God's love, Hope, Humility, Interconnectedness, Life, Like a Child, love, Magic Kingdom, Mysteries of God, Mystery, Open Heart, Remarkable, Salvation, The Heavens, Wonder, Wonderful
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 Notice My Famous Neighbor”
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Posted on September 30, 2024
by Jeff Herringshaw
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“Christianity doesn’t work.” I’ve been told this more than once. Someone explains why he’s giving up his faith, and it usually has something to do with him not getting what he feels he needs. Typically, references are made to unanswered prayers; troubling questions without… Continue Reading “Choosing the Process Over the Product”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Children, Christianity, Contentment, Eternity, Ethics, Faith, Feel better, Fixed, God is Good, God Is Love, God's love, Goodness of God, Grace, Growth, Happiness, Happy, Helpful, love, Love Hurts, Loving God, Loving Jesus, More Love, More to Love, Pleasure, Preparing for Eternity, Process, Product, Result, Results, Spiritual Growth, Unanswered Prayer, Utilitarianism, Utility
It’s a condition I have had for many years. I get infections in my colon. They can be extremely painful and put me in the hospital. I have learned to recognize the feeling when it’s beginning and usually have to fight a sense of… Continue Reading “Choosing a Better Option”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Addictions, Afflictions, Afflictions of the soul, Comfort, Comforter, Confusion, Drug of choice, Drugs, Emotional Pain, Escape, freedom, Freedom from pain, Freedom from suffering, God of all Comfort, God's love, God's Comfort, Hurts, Infection, Narcotics, Numb, Numb the pain, Pain Relief, Porn, Pornography, Problems, Real Comfort, Self-medicate, Self-Medication, Source of Comfort, Stop hurting, Suffering, Symptoms, Troubles
I first wrote the words “I love you” in a note to a girl when I was in the 5th grade. It felt good. And the feeling was even better when I received a note back with the same words. A core belief took shape… Continue Reading “Choosing Love that Gives”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Agape Love, Choosing to Give, Choosing to give the greatest good, Crazy Love, Divine Love, Enduring Love, For God so loved the world, God Is Love, God's love, Good Gifts, John 3:16, Let us love one another, Long-suffering love, love, Love Gives, Love Hurts, Love is not a feeling, Love that Gives, Loving the unloveable, Passion, Passionate love, sacrificial love, Suffering Love, The Greatest Gift, The Greatest Good, Unconditional Love, Unfailing Love
Posted on February 20, 2023
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Speculations on the beginning of the universe fascinate me. There is, of course, the Big Bang Theory (not the television show). It is the most commonly known hypothesis, proposing that all existing matter was at one time compressed into a tiny, infinitely dense speck… Continue Reading “Choosing to Start Small”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Baby Jesus, Christmas, God's love, God's Mercy, God's Wisdom, Humility, Incarnation, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Small Beginnings, Small Packages, The Incarnation, True Greatness, Value System, Values
Posted on December 26, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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At the beginning of my senior year in high school, my family moved to another state. It was difficult for many reasons. The hardest one was that I was leaving a girlfriend (who would eventually become my wife). This was back before the internet… Continue Reading “Choosing an Incarnated God”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Advent, Baby Jesus, Celebrate Jesus, Christ's birthday, Christmas, For God so loved the world, God in the flesh, God's love, Holiday Season, In the flesh, Incarnated God, Incarnation, Jesus, Jesus' birthday, love, Messiah, Reason for the Season, Relationship with God, The Incarnation
Posted on November 20, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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“I’m so disappointed,” the young man said to me. “I came here wanting to experience God’s love. But I have felt nothing new. This has been a waste of my time.” I was interviewing one of our discipleship students as the program was winding… Continue Reading “Choosing to Acknowledge My Need”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Blind Spots, forgive, forgiveness, God's love, Humility, I am needy, love, Love for God, My need, My sin, Need, Neediness, Release, Self Righteousness, sin, Sinner, Spiritual Blindness
Posted on October 11, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Someone once pulled me aside after a class I taught and said something close to the following: “I can’t believe that God is loving. He put people in the Garden along with a tree He told them not to touch, saying it would lead… Continue Reading “Choosing to Choose”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: choices, Choose, Choosing, Chosen, Deciding, Decisions, Determinism, Fatalism, Fate, Free Will, God's love, love, Responsibility
Posted on September 27, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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My father was a boy during World War 2. He often heard of atrocities that America’s enemies, the Japanese and the Germans, were committing. According to the stories, those foreigners were the villainous aggressors, and they were seeking to come to our country to… Continue Reading “Choosing to Not Be Like Jonah”
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