Eric Blehm, author of Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown, paid tribute to Navy SEAL and author of American Sniper Chris Kyle. Go here to read Blehm’s post. To watch the live webcast Blehm taped with Kyle last September, go here.
You Can’t Make Me author, Cynthia Ulrich Tobias, provides helpful and practical tips to parents of a strong-willed child on CBN’s 700 Club.
Visit here to watch and learn more on Tobias’ approach.
Cleaning House author, Kay Wills Wyma, shares her experience in helping to make her own kids more independent on Louisville’s WHAS, Great Day LIVE!
For every parent who is picking their kids’ clothes off the floor, making their beds, waiting on them hand and foot…click here to watch!
“The Bible has a lot to say about our identity. For example, Peter wrote, ‘You are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. ‘Once you had no identity as a people; now you are God’s people. Once you received no mercy; now you have received God’s mercy.’’
Peter was talking about our collective identity as Christians, but this also is a message to us as individuals. Before it dawned on us that Jesus Christ is real and is willing to live in our hearts, many of us were lost in our personal identity crises. But as we become followers of Jesus, the Bible says, we take on a new identity [ … ]
“Some questions we have about finding our calling and vocation are what questions. What God-given gifts do I have? What can I do? What is being asked of me?
And some of them are where questions. Where is the right place for me? Do I still want to work here? Is this school the right one for me? Has the time come to move away or to move home?
There is at least one other set of questionsthe who questions.”
“Our search for our calling leads us to listen deep within ourselves, hoping to hear the echo within, hoping to ungarble and understand the incarnate word spoken into us, hoping to discover how to live into and out of the echo of that word as it resounds within. But we are not meant to stay within ourselves forever. We [ … ]
“God did not create people out of need but because He wanted to, just for the love of it. Strictly speaking, I do not know that I am needed in this world. But as God’s child I do know that I am wanted. It seems to me that the world could carry on quite well without me. Would it make any difference if there were one less star in the heavens? No, that extra star is not there because it is needed, but because it is wanted. It is there because Someone wanted it.
Knowing I am wanted, both by God and by other people, is more mysterious and freeing than being needed. Similarly, it is better for me to want God and to want people than to relate out of need. Want is a purer and a higher [ … ]
“I plead with you. Let love uncover your past, and let the balm of grace heal it. God, in His omniscience and sovereignty, allowed you to experience what you experienced. His intent was not to destroy you because His thoughts toward you are precious. Rather, His purpose was to use it all to mold and to make you into His child, a child upon whom He would delight to pour out His love. A child who would serve Him in the fullness of His grace.”
Excerpted from Lord, I Need Grace to Make it Today by Kay Arthur
Daily Reflection: How can you accept Gods grace today?
