We talk a lot on this blog about living for eternity. That's because we firmly believe the most important things we can ever do on this earth are the things that will reverberate long after this mortal life is over. When everything around us in this life seems to encourage short-term fixes and instant gratification, [...]
The summer before my junior year of college, my brother and I took part in a summer beach project in Daytona Beach, Florida with a campus student ministry from our university. We were extremely excited about it for many reasons, but one of them was because–if you can believe it–neither of us had ever seen [...]
When I was a kid, I had all kinds of ribbons on my walls for races I had run, but not one of them was blue. Not one of them had the words "first place." They were all purple. Purple represented "honorable mention." An honorable mention is not first, second, third, or fourth place. It [...]
"Is managing money just about having a budget and planning for retirement? Or does how we manage our money have something to do with eternity? When Hudson Taylor opened a bank account for the China Inland Mission, the application form asked for an asset list. Taylor wrote the following as the sum total of his [...]
Time is finite. Not only is it finite, but it is a part of our physical world that will one day cease to exist. But before that ever happens, your time will cease to exist. Your turn on this earth will one day be over. So the real question is this: what will you do [...]
