Evaluate Your No Excuses Challenge Well, you are on your last day of the No Excuse Challenge. Work through the following questions, writing answers for each, as you evaluate the work that God has been doing in and through you. Follow Up Questions During the month, what has been the most encouraging, uplifting thought… Read More »
Bottom Up
No Excuses in My Relationship with God’s Kingdom Read Mark 10:42-45 And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would… Read More »
Say the Name
No Excuses in My Relationship with God’s Kingdom There is no doubt that we are to be living examples of Christ to the world. We are to live in such a way that when others see our good deeds they will be pointed toward God. (Matt 5:16) It is very important that we who call… Read More »
Life Worthy of the Gospel
No Excuses in My Relationship with God’s Kingdom Read: 2 Timothy 3:10-13 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.… Read More »
Seeking His Kingdom
No Excuses in My Relationship with God’s Kingdom Read: Matthew 6:31-33 “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,… Read More »
Positively Positive
No Excuses in Relationship with Others “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up…” (1 Thessalonians 5:11, NIV) Have you ever heard a kid on the playground say, “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”? This vicious lie is impossible to believe, for we have all been wounded… Read More »
Other Prayers
No Excuses in Relationship with Others I remember having a list of all those I was praying for when I was a teenager. I would spend an hour each morning praying to God and included in that was a large amount of time praying for others. It was great for me as a young person… Read More »
Are You a Stumbling Block or a Stepping Stone?
No Excuses in Relationship with Others Many times people who profess Christ with their lips fail to live Him with their lives. When we confess to be a Christian to those with which we work and play, then they use our lives as an example of Christ and His teachings. Too many times we live… Read More »
Are You a People Person?
No Excuses in Relationship with Others As we go through life it is easy to deceive ourselves into thinking we are someone that we aren’t as well as viewing others in the wrong way. Steve mentioned self-deception and its ability to cause us to be in The Box in our relationship toward others. Look at… Read More »
Living a Positive Legacy
No Excuses in Relationship with Others And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. – 2 Timothy 2:2 Did you know the Nobel Peace Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite? How… Read More »
