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Posted on January 29, 2024
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 Need Forgiveness”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Arrogance, Blind Spots, Encountering God, forgive, Forgiven, Forgiven Little, Forgiven Much, forgiveness, Help Me!, Helpless, Humble, Humble Myself, Humility, I am a sinner, I have sinned, I Need a Savior, I Need God, I need help, Independence, love, Love of God, Need a Savior, Need help, Need to be Rescued, Pride, Rescued, Rescuer, Respectable Sinner, Save me, Savior, Self-Righteousness, Self-sufficiency, sin, Sinner, Spiritual Pride
Posted on December 11, 2023
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 the Order of My Affections”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Affection, Affections, Beauty, Confused, Confused Passions, Deep Feelings, Emotion, Emotions, Eternal Value, Eternal Values, Eternity, Feelings, Goodness, Justice, love, Loving, Misdirected Passions, Order of Affections, Ordered Loves, Ordo Amoris, Passion, Passionate, Passions, Rightly Ordered Loves, Saint Augustine, Sentiment, Sentiments
Posted on November 13, 2023
by Jeff Herringshaw
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There are a lot of people I don’t like. In fact, there are some, if I had it my way, I would avoid completely. They either believe differently than I do and make me feel uncomfortable; they are interested in things I cannot relate… Continue Reading “Choosing the Reason I Love”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: 2nd Greatest Commandment, God's Love, Good Samaritan, Greatest Commandment, I don't feel like loving, love, Love God, Love is a choice, Love is not a feeling, Love Others, Love People, Love your enemy, Loving God, Loving my enemy, Loving Others, What is Love?, Who is my neighbor
Posted on September 18, 2023
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 What Remains”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Build, Building, Burnt Up, Eternal Home, Eternal Investments, Eternal Life, Eternity, Faith, Final Judgment, Gold, Hope, Investments, Jewels, Judgment, Lasting, Lasting Investments, Long-Term Thinking, love, Purifying Fire, Resurrection, Resurrection Bodies, Silver, Solid Investment, The Greatest of These, Valuable, Value
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
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 Love My Enemies”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Bitterness, Condemnation, Condemning others, forgive, forgiveness, Grace, Hate, Hatred, hostility, injustice, love, Love your enemy, Merciful, Mercy, Persecution, Prejudice, Righteous Anger, Self Righteousness, Sending others to hell, sin
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
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 December 12, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I was in the third grade when I painfully discovered something about myself. A teacher was giving a math lesson on the multiplication table using a chart with colored geometric shapes. She asked for a volunteer to provide the answer to 3X3, referring to… Continue Reading “Choosing to Call Out Courage in Another”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Affirm, Affirmation, Compassion, Correct, Correcting Others, Courage, Destiny, Do the right thing, Encourage, Encouragement, Encouraging, Gideon, Give, Give Strength, Give Support, Help, Help Out, Hero, Identity, love, Mighty Hero, No Condemnation, Strength, Strengthen, Strengthen another, Support, Telling the Truth, True Identity, Truth, Truth Teller
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
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