Posted on December 8, 2025
by Jeff Herringshaw
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“He will order His angels to protect you.” These words from Psalm 91 should be a great comfort for those who are putting their trust in God. It says in verse 6, “Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that… Continue Reading “Choosing to Remember God’s Track Record”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Bible, Christianity, Don't Forget, Doubts, Faith, Forgetting God, God, God is Faithful, Hope, Jesus, love, Pride, Remember, Salvation, sin, Struggling with Doubts, Temptation, Tested, Testing God, Trust, Trust God, Word of God
Posted on September 15, 2025
by Jeff Herringshaw
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“Being able to do whatever I want to do.” That’s how a young man at the mall replied to my friend who was randomly asking strangers to define “freedom.” Many of the other responses that day were similar. Later, after hearing all the homemade… Continue Reading “Choosing Liberty”
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It happened one day on the school playground when I was in 5th grade. A girl who I thought was my friend suddenly called me a “blockhead.” As all the surrounding kids laughed, she went on shouting that my head was too big for my… Continue Reading “Choosing to Let My Shame Be Covered”
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A good story almost always requires a villain. Everyone loves to detest and blame that guy who is despicable. And what is easier to despise than a creep motivated by pure greed? In movies, a hero commonly struggles against a filthy rich tycoon or… Continue Reading “Choosing to Avoid Avarice”
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I wasn’t more than ten years old when I watched my grandfather butcher a pig. Contrary to what some might imagine, I don’t think I was emotionally damaged by it. Sure, it was gruesome and bloody. But I also remember thinking that this is… Continue Reading “Choosing an Atoning Sacrifice”
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Posted on December 30, 2024
by Jeff Herringshaw
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The new year is upon us, and that means resolutions! Many of us are making promises to initiate changes in our lives. I have heard mixed reviews regarding the effectiveness of such commitments. Most of us give up on the pledges made on January… Continue Reading “Choosing a GUILTLESS New Year”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Change, Change my life, Clean Heart, Cleansed from sin, False Guilt, Forgive and forget, Forgive me, Forgiven, forgiveness, freedom, Freedom from guilt, freedom from past mistakes, freedom from past sin, God's mercy, guilt, Guilty, Healing, Hope, Hope for the new year, Humble, Humility, I want to change, Making Changes, new start, New Year, New Year Resolution, Pain, Redemption, Relationship healing, Release, Repentance, shame, sin, Soul Pain, Starting Over
It’s been used as a joke, but there are some very funny images to support it as a reality. Do humans resemble their pets? In attitude and temperament? Even in their looks? It appears the answer is a strong YES! This phenomenon, particularly with… Continue Reading “Choosing a Different Look”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Appearances, Biblical truth, choices, Choose, Hating sin, Idolatry, Idols, Living for God, Living for Jesus, Looking like my pet, love, Loving God, Loving Jesus, Loving things, My model, My pet looks like me, sin, Spiritual Blindness, True Discipleship, True Worship, What I look like, What I love, Who I follow, Worship, Worshiping the Wrong Thing
I have worked with some people over the years with serious pride issues. Surely you know the type I’m talking about. They see and hear only what they want and leave room for little to no outside input into their work, their projects, their… Continue Reading “Choosing to See IT in Me”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: 7 Deadly Sins, Arrogance, Blinded, Blindness, conceit, Control, Control the narrative, distorted view, ego, ego-trip, egoism, Hubris, Humble, Humility, Insolence, my value, Narcissism, Narcissist, Open Eyes, Original Sin, Presumption, pretension, Pride, Proud, Self-importance, self-love, Self-pity, sin, Sin of sins, Sinner, smug, smugness, snob, Thinking too highly of myself, vanity
It’s a condition that I have had for many years now. I am prone to develop infections in my colon that can be extremely painful. It has put me in the hospital in the past, and I have come to recognize the feeling in… Continue Reading “Choosing Real Comfort”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Comfort, Confusion, Desensitized, Discomfort, Emotional Pain, Feel better, Feelings, God's Comfort, guilt, Identity, Internal Wholeness, Internet porn, Medicate, Medication, Misunderstood, Negativity, Numb, Numbing the pain, Pain, Porn, Pornography, Psychic Pain, Real Comfort, Sadness, Self Reliance, Self-medicate, Self-Medication, Sickness, sin, Soul Medication, Symptoms, Unforgiveness, Wholeness
Who wouldn’t want to be Bilbo the Hobbit upon finding a magic ring? Oh, the mischievous things that could be done! In addition, there would be the unique comfort that comes with the ability to turn invisible, hiding from the prying eyes of goblins,… Continue Reading “Choosing More than Appearances”
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