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”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Animosity, Bad People, Bitterness, Cancel, Canceling, Character of God, Compassion, Compassionate, Enemies, Enemy, Evil, Evil Behavior, forgive, forgiveness, God Is Love, God's Heart, God's love, God's Mercy, Grace, Hate your enemies, Hatred, Jonah, Judgment, Love your enemies, Merciful, Mercy, Unforgiveness
Posted on May 24, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Music of the rock group Kansas takes me back to my high school days. I particularly remember the hauntingly beautiful harmonies of “Dust in the Wind.” The sound would echo in my head days after I listened to it on the radio. Who could… Continue Reading “Choosing a Forever Life”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Accomplishments, Death, Dust in the Wind, Endless Future, Eternal Life, Eternity, Forever, God's love, Hope, immortality, Kansas, love, Nothingness, Worthless
Posted on February 8, 2021
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 God’s Definition of Love”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Biblical Love, Definition of Love, False Images, God Is Love, God's love, Highest Good, I Love You, Idol Worship, Idolatry, love, Love Defined, Valentine's Day, What is Love?