by Dan Jarvis | Nov 1, 2018 | Obedience, Revive Magazine, Six Responses to God, Your Faith Frontier
Crossing the Faith Frontier Requires RELATIONSHIPS If you want to go fast, go alone. if you want to go far, go together! So often, in our imaginations of taking bold steps of faith, we see ourselves standing alone, going against the crowd—facing persecution, stepping...
by Dan Jarvis | Nov 1, 2018 | Obedience, Revive Magazine, Six Responses to God, Your Faith Frontier
Crossing the Faith Frontier Requires RESOLVE On God’s trail, there is amazing reward and joy ahead that dwarfs any difficulty you will experience. Pioneers along the Oregon Trail in the mid-1800s faced temptation to turn back, often on a daily basis. One settler wrote...
by Dan Jarvis | Nov 1, 2018 | Obedience, Revive Magazine, Six Responses to God, Your Faith Frontier
How to Begin Your Epic Journey We tend to think that the faith heroes of the past were always “heroes.” They weren’t. They, like us, had daily lives as well, and not every moment was epic. It could be that you, like me, are feeling limited—not because you lack faith,...
by Dan Jarvis | Nov 1, 2017 | Marriage & Family, Marriage: Becoming One, Revive Magazine
I said “I do” to the woman of my dreams. I’m really, really, really glad that for some crazy reason, she reciprocated. Melissa and I met in the ministry—she was an Iowa farm girl who had been teaching second-graders in South Bend, Indiana. She answered a call to serve...
by Dan Jarvis | Aug 25, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth, Say Yes to God
I’m like a lot of Americans—I need to get in shape. And, ironically, I know exactly what to do to make that happen. In fact, from all the books and articles I’ve read, I’d probably make a decent health-and-wellness counselor. (My most important advice: Do as I say,...
