Some of the best advice I’ve been given regarding a heavy wipe-out is to keep calm. Even when you’re being thrashed around underwater like a ragdoll and it seems like an eternity since your last breath... keep calm. I’ve been surfing since I was seven. All throughout high school my identity was based on being a surfer. [...]
Day: October 14, 2015
Leaving more behind than your iPhone
What will be your legacy? ‘Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed, a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.’ Luke 12:15 NIV The desire to accumulate seems to be a distinctively human trait. If you think about it, nearly no other species on earth feels the [...]
God Has Made Your Righteous
What if I told you that one of God’s biggest goals for your life was despair? As Christians, we’re trained to despair of our sinful behavior. That’s because it’s relatively easy for us to see the bad in our sins. No one will argue that lust, pride, gluttony, hate, murder, gossip, etc. aren’t on the [...]
Information Overload! (1)
‘Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.’ Daniel 12:4 NKJV Technology lets us do things we’ve never been able to do, but it can be addictive. You can become tied to it in ways that are exhausting. One expert notes: ‘There’s a strong tendency for humans to do everything they’re able to. [...]
Today’s Soulfood Readings
Exodus 25–27 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said [...]