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  • Speak Confidently and Listen Calmly: Why the Best Communicators Don’t Do All the Talking 1

    Speak Confidently and Listen Calmly: Why the Best Communicators Don’t Do All the Talking

    Effective Communication

  • Parable of the Great Banquet: When Opportunity Calls 2

    Parable of the Great Banquet: When Opportunity Calls

    When we reach out for and find God, we'll discover that life with him is incredible.

  • 10 Tips to Inspire an Entitled Teenager to Love Others 3

    10 Tips to Inspire an Entitled Teenager to Love Others

    As parents, we can help our teenagers to love others—no matter how entitled they may be—by inspiring them to follow Jesus's example.

  • Overcoming entitlement mentality

    Don’t Get Mad, Grow: Overcoming the Entitlement Mentality

    As long as our hearts have the entitlement mentality, personal growth in our relationship with God and with others will cease.

  • 5 Steps to Develop Confidence in God 4

    5 Steps to Develop Confidence in God

    The Bible teaches how to build confidence in God, not self.

  • When You Don't Get What You Want 5

    When You Don’t Get What You Want

    Not getting what we want may be one of the biggest challenges to our faith. God wants to parent us by giving us what we need.

  • The Spirituality of Jesus, Part 4: Active 6

    The Spirituality of Jesus, Part 4: Active

    With secure confidence in the saving power of God, we tightly grip the “sword of the Spirit”, which is God’s Word, and then march forward in our fight to rescue others from the darkness.

  • Deep Insecurity, Part 5: Deep Confidence 7

    Deep Insecurity, Part 5: Deep Confidence

    Pray about your lack of trust in God. What areas of your life are you unwilling to trust God with, and how has this affected your desire to pray? How has it affected your desire to read your Bible?

  • The 12 Days of Jesus, Day 4: Confidence Turns the Tide 8

    The 12 Days of Jesus, Day 4: Confidence Turns the Tide

    Jesus's confidence was in God, so when people were fickle he remained faithful, which is why I think so many people found him attractive. We must read the scriptures with greater intensity to learn this confidence, so we continue to keep the dream of Jesus alive and build his kingdom, regardless of whether we are many or few, important or irrelevant, succeeding or failing, being criticized or praised.