by Life Action | Jul 29, 2022 | Say Yes to God
We need a distraction. Almost every story about a surprise attack contains this line. Whether it’s a rescue operation or a hostile invasion, a well-timed distraction raises the odds of success. A rock thrown in the opposite direction. A fire set on the other end of...
by Life Action | Jun 30, 2022 | Say Yes to God
Seventy years is a long time to be where you don’t want to be. But that was the situation the citizens of Judah found themselves in. Taken from their homeland, exiled to Babylon, for seventy years—which meant that some would never see home again. It was their fault,...
by Life Action | May 31, 2022 | Say Yes to God
But there never seems to be enough time To do the things you want to do once you find them. So wrote singer and songwriter Jim Croce in his hit single of the early 1970s, “Time in a Bottle.” He wrote the song soon after his wife, Ingrid, told him she was pregnant—news...
by Aaron Paulus | May 9, 2022 | Say Yes to God
We can’t settle for “low-energy” Christianity anymore. It’s time to pick up the pace and charge forward in faith. To win the 21st century, and to complete the Great Commission, we need a fresh surge of energy in the Christian movement, starting with you, putting your...
by Life Action | May 4, 2022 | Say Yes to God
written by Mark Hurlbut Jesus is looking for faith (Luke 8:22ff; Mark 8:22; Matthew 8:10). The kind of faith that will believe big things and even pray big, holy, audacious prayers. What in the world is a big, holy, audacious prayer? Hang on, I’ll explain. But first,...
by Life Action | Apr 29, 2022 | Say Yes to God
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers (Psalm 1:3 ESV). Being steadfast has nothing to do with self-sufficiency. In fact, steadfastness is only truly visible...
by Life Action | Mar 31, 2022 | Say Yes to God
Imagine being in the circle of disciples the day Jesus spoke these words: In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you...
by Life Action | Feb 28, 2022 | Say Yes to God
What are your plans today? It’s a simple and direct question, generally asked by someone who is either affected by your plans or who wants to be involved in them. But what if God were the One asking? Wouldn’t the best response be something along the lines of, “You...
by Life Action | Jan 31, 2022 | Say Yes to God
David asked the rhetorical question, “Where shall I flee from your presence?” (Psalm 139:7). The answer, of course, was nowhere. There was not a corner of the universe or even a hidden nook in the place of the dead (Sheol) where God was not present. And that truth...
by Life Action | Dec 30, 2021 | Say Yes to God
When Charles Sheldon’s novel In His Steps was published in 1896, he couldn’t have imagined that one short phrase would be lifted from its pages and one hundred years later show up again on the wrists and windshields of countless American churchgoers. The phrase, which...
