Posted on November 10, 2025
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 More than Results”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Bible, Christian, Christian Faith, Easy Life, Faith, Feel better, Feeling Good, God, God is Good, God Is Love, Good Feelings, Good Results, Good Vibes, Grace, Happiness, Hidden Goodness, Hope, I want, I want to feel good, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Kindness, love, Love One Another, make me happy, Peace, Pleasant Feelings, Product, Proof, Results, Scriptures
Posted on August 11, 2025
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I like to feel good. It’s a basic urge within me to chase happiness wherever I think it can be found. My country’s Declaration of Independence affirms the pursuit of it to be an inalienable right. When I imagine myself in a happy state,… Continue Reading “Choosing Something Other than Happiness”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Changed Perspective, Comfort, Comfortable, Cry, Delight, Delighted, Enjoy, Excited, Faith, Fruit of the Spirit, God, God's Presence, Grief, Happiness, Happy, Holy Spirit, Hope, Jesus, Joy, love, Miserable, Misery, Mourn, My Life Sucks, New Perspective, Out of Control, Peace, Perspective, Pleasurable, Pleasure, Rejoice, Relationships, Sad, Sadness, Suffer, Suffering, The Cross, Uncomfortable, Weep, Weeping
As a Follower of Jesus, is it wrong to ask God to fulfill my desires? I have been asked this question more than once. There are two extreme responses that are often associated with Christianity. One comes out of the God-wants-you-to-be-happy theology and therefore,… Continue Reading “Choosing Lasting Satisfaction”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Contented, Contentment, Core Desires, Deceitful Desires, Desire, desires, Disappointment, Dissatisfaction, Dissatisfied, Empty, evil desires, Faith, Fraudulent Desires, Fulfilled, Fulfilled Desires, Fulfillment, Give it to me, Give it to me now, God-given desires, godly desires, Happiness, Hope, I want, I want it, Joy, Longing, love, make me happy, Passion, Passionate, Peace, Real Life, Satisfaction, Satisfied, Surface Desires, Unfulfilled desires
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
I read of her in my college literature class, Lady Elaine of Astolat. A figure in Arthurian legend, she died from the weight of unrequited love. Sir Lancelot just didn’t feel it the same way she did. Of course, dying because of or for… Continue Reading “Choosing Strange Love”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Death, Doubts, Faith, Feelings, Good Feelings, Happiness, Ignatius of Antioch, Jesus, Jesus' Sacrifice, Joy, Lady Elaine, love, Love Hurts, Love like Jesus, Love that Gives, Martyrs, Meaning, Perpetua and Felicity, Polycarp, Purpose, Sacrificial Death, sacrificial love, Self-centered, Sentiments, Strange Love, Suffering, Till Death do us part, True Happiness, Unrequited Love
What gives meaning to life? That is the philosophical and spiritual question that has been asked for thousands of years. As a follower of Jesus, I have assumed that all others who follow Him would answer this in the same way: it is God.… Continue Reading “Choosing to Think Big”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Anais Nin, Beauty, Big Ideas, Big Picture, Conflicting Definitions, Definitions, Goodness, Happiness, Happy, Ideas, Individual meaning, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus Follower, Justice, Me, Meaning, Meaning of Life, My happiness, My Purpose, My Truth, Nominalism, Purpose, Relativism, Secularism, The individual, Total unity, True for everyone, Truth, Unity, universal defintions, Universal Meaning, Universal Purpose, Universal truth, Universals, What makes me happy
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
What gives meaning to life? That is the philosophical and spiritual question that has been asked for thousands of years. As a follower of Jesus, I have assumed that all others who follow Him would answer this in the same way: God. In His… Continue Reading “Choosing a Bigger Picture”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Beauty, Cosmic meaning, Cosmic truth, Goodness, Happiness, He is God and I am not, Meaning, Meaning of Life, Names, Nominalism, Objectivity, Personal meaning, Reality, Subjectivity, The Life, the Truth, The Way, Universal definitions, Universal Meaning, Universal truth, Universals
Posted on June 22, 2020
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I like to feel good. It’s a basic urge within me to chase happiness wherever I think it can be found. My country’s Declaration of Independence affirms the pursuit of it to be an inalienable right. When I imagine myself in a happy state,… Continue Reading “Choosing Joy”
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