As a child, I remember when my Sunday school knowledge about God and the Bible became too simple and dull. I was a jaded 12-year-old, having grown up saturated with what felt like dry, moralistic lessons drawn from the pages of scripture. The words… Continue Reading “Choosing to Go Back to Kindergarten”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Biblical truth, Bored with Christianity, Child-like Faith, Child-likeness, Christian, Daughter, Disciples of Jesus, Discipleship, Faith, Follower of Jesus, Godliness, Holiness, Hope, Humble, Humility, Immature, Kindergarten, Like a Child, Little, Little one, love, Lowly, Mature, Pre-school, Remember, Son, Sunday school, The Basics, The Bible, Trust God, Truth
Posted on February 24, 2025
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Newer is almost always better. This is especially true with technology and when deciding what leftovers in the refrigerator to eat. Cars with lower mileage are almost always preferable to the old ones. Almost. There are those vehicles considered classics and in high demand.… Continue Reading “Choosing Old Stuff”
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Posted on January 15, 2024
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Newer is almost always better than older. This is especially true with technology and when deciding what leftovers in the refrigerator to eat. New cars with lower mileage, for example, are almost always preferable to the old ones. Almost. There are the vehicles considered… Continue Reading “Choosing the Ancient Way”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Ancient of Days, Ancient Scripture, Biblical Documents, Biblical Texts, Dead Sea Scrolls, Essenes, Old Things, Qumran, Reliability of the Bible, The Ancient Way, The Bible
Posted on July 10, 2023
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I was sure I heard God’s voice. “Take your family to Romania.” It had been that clear in my mind as I prayed, and it was one of the outreach options for our YWAM training school. My wife had prayed and agreed, and we… Continue Reading “Choosing Guidance from God”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Advice, Circumstances, Direction from God, Direction in Life, Directions, Divine circumstances, Divine Guidance, God's Instructions, God's Timing, God's Voice, Guidance, Harbor Lights, Hearing God's Voice, Holy Spirit, Inner Witness, Internal Witness, Life Decisions, Logos of God, Rhema of God, The Bible, Voice of God, Wise Advice, Wise Counsel, Word of God, Word of the Lord
Posted on January 16, 2023
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Full disclosure: I am a recovering English teacher. It’s been many years since I stood in front of a class of middle-schoolers and attempted to convey the beauty of past participles, gerunds and the joy of diagramming a sentence. The response was almost always… Continue Reading “Choosing to Just Read It!”
Posted on June 6, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I am a recovering English teacher. It’s been many years since I stood in front of a class of middle-schoolers and attempted to convey the beauty of past participles, gerunds and the joy of diagraming a sentence. The response was almost always less than… Continue Reading “Choosing What’s IN”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Christ in me, Connecting with God, God in me, Holy Bible, Holy Scriptures, Identity, In Christ, In God, Knowing God, Listening to God, New Testament, Prepositions, Reading the Bible, Reading the Word, The Bible, The Word of God