Imagine this. You’ve been chosen—handpicked—for a journey no human has ever taken. After months of grueling preparation, your body aches from training, your mind stretches to its limits, and your heart pounds with anticipation. The day finally comes. You suit up, step into the spacecraft, and feel the deep rumble beneath you as engines ignite. [...]
Called Beyond Yourself There is a sacred moment every person encounters—the moment you realize what God is asking of you cannot be done in your own strength. It’s the moment confidence fades…when your plans feel insufficient…when your abilities seem too small for the weight of the calling. And in that moment, you stand at a [...]
Imagine that you have decided to become a gold miner. You drop everything in the suburbs for a simpler life to pan gold by the side of a stream in the Colorado Rockies. After you start, you can’t believe how easy it is. Day after day you walk fifty yards to the trickling stream near [...]
God has given us the ability to create and work for Him, to envision what our lives will be like, and to believe for what is possible. And within the context of relationship with Him, the gift of belief is powerful to help build God’s Kingdom! Don’t get me wrong. It’s clear God isn’t here [...]
I began my career as an aerospace engineer because I like airplanes. However, it didn’t take me long to discover that I had chosen the wrong path because aerospace engineering wouldn’t satisfy the entrepreneurial spirit God created in me. After some thought and a few years of working as an engineer, I decided to transition [...]
Do you have a goal you believe God would like you to achieve but it seems too big to accomplish? Remember that a key to having the faith to reach any God-given goal is to realize that obtaining it is progressive; it’s made up of lots of little steps. This means that when you [...]
There once was a king who wanted to make his name great among his people, so he built a grand castle with ornate spires shooting into the sky to grace his world-renowned city. The result was just what he wanted. Men worshipped him and came from near and far to see his castle and his [...]
Union soldiers had burned Atlanta and overrun Tara, and Scarlett O’Hara was frantic about her future. Her father wasn’t; he had slipped into a mild dementia to cope with the devastation of the South. But Scarlett, trying to reestablish some sense of normal life on the old plantation, was running out of options. There were [...]
Imagine that it’s a sunny Saturday afternoon in June. You have a few free hours so you decide to go rafting a couple miles from your home. You call your best buddy and invite him to join you. Within the hour he knocks on your front door. You take him to the garage and he [...]
If you could be not only rich, but super rich, would you be happy? The answer seems simple. After all, doesn’t everyone want to be rich so they can be happy? But what if being “rich” is not synonymous with being happy? What if true happiness is the product of a different pursuit? A pursuit [...]
