Are there some areas in your life and ministry where you are consistently struggling?<\/p>\n
In a recent blog post, Thom Rainer says, “I still don’t get it in several areas of life and leadership…Here are my top five (or should they be a bottom five?).<\/p>\n
• The so-called big problem of today will not be around in a short while.<\/strong> Though I know better, I sometimes respond to challenging issues of today [as if ] it’s the end of the world. Weeks later, I will wonder why I got so upset at the time.<\/p>\n • Don’t take criticisms personally.<\/strong> Yeah. Right. Sometimes I think my skin is so thin it’s translucent. I have written numerous articles on dealing with criticisms. Sometimes when I am writing on such topics, it seems like an out-of-body experience. I know I talk it a lot better than I walk it.<\/p>\n • Trust God in all things.<\/strong> I certainly believe the statement biblically and theologically. I just don’t demonstrate faith to live it more times than I would like to say.<\/p>\n • Life is short; enjoy the moment.<\/strong> I am goal-oriented. Let me restate that. I am obsessively goal-oriented. Too often I miss out on the small and daily joys God has given me. I don’t focus sufficiently on this day because I’m looking to accomplish something in the future.<\/p>\n • An adventure in faith begins when we get out of our comfort zones.<\/strong> OK, I’ll give myself a little credit here. I have stepped out in faith a few times in my life. My point is that I don’t do so enough. I can get comfortable with my routines and earthly pleasures. Too comfortable.” (Read Thom’s full article here.)<\/p>\n What would you include in your Bottom-Five List? What can you do this week to help strengthen your service in one of those areas?<\/p>\n Blessings! Are there some areas in your life and ministry where you are consistently struggling? In a recent blog post, Thom Rainer says, “I still don’t get it in several areas of life and leadership…Here are my top five (or should they be a bottom five?). • The so-called big problem of today will not be … Continue reading “Where Do You Struggle?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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