Archive for June, 2011
RG2G 031 How to Get Unstuck With God and Go to the Next Level
Not a week goes by when someone doesn’t say to me, “David, I’m stuck in my faith. I’m losing it. God seems far away and it just seems like I’m going to church and going through the motions, but nothing is changing in my life, at least nothing for… More
Dave Rave – 5 Self-Examination Questions You Need to be Asking
If you’re like me, you don’t like to be managed, coerced, or told what to do. That doesn’t mean that I don’t need to be sometimes. That’s why I always include dissenting voices in my life.
As great as it is to have people in your life to whom… More
Number One Reason Why Great Leaders Go Bad
As predictable as hot weather in July, and snow in Alaska, is the fall of great leaders.
It seems every other week we’re reading about the demise of some leader, either in politics, business, or the church world who have done something stupid to sabotage their influence.
Think about this. … More
When You’re Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
One of the most dangerous places you can ever be in your life, is being sick and tired. What we’re really saying is, we’re stuck. More times than not, I’ve found that the weariness I feel is far more emotional than it is physical.
In this talk I spoke about… More
FMBS 015 A Beautiful Anger
We continue, today, in our weekly verse-by-verse study of John by beginning with John 2:13. Here are introduced the most intriguing aspects of Jesus’s ministry, of his ability to become angry and remain righteous and sinless, all at the same time. Oftentimes we teach Christians that anger and frustration… More
RG2G 030 Resisting the Nice-ification of Jesus
One thing you can say about Jesus, is after two thousand years, He’s as popular as ever. But also, I might argue, as misunderstood.
This is never more true than when you think about the picture that American Christianity has tended to paint of the person of Jesus. When… More
Dave Rave – 5 Signs You’re Not Focused
To achieve anything of significance in life requires focus; not just focus for the moment, but focus over time, a focus that is fixed on learning, growing, and mastering a subject,a problem, or an opportunity. Here are five signs you’re not focused.
- You don’t have a plan. If
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How to Rehabilitate Your Reputation
I’ve heard it said that your character is what you are when no one is watching, and your reputation is what other people think you are while they are listening to other people who have been watching you.
The truth is, every person I’ve ever known is going to go… More
A New Normal, Not of My Own Making
It’s hard enough to deal with the stupid things we do to ourselves. But sometimes it’s downright insane when we face the things that are done to us, that create what I call a “new normal, not of our own making.”
In today’s talk we discussed how to face life… More
FMBS 014 John 1:39-2:12 Two Words That Change Everything
As we continue our verse-by-verse study of the Book of John, we are introduced to the disciples that Jesus is now gathering around Him. And as they come around Him, each one of them is so transfixed with Jesus and who He is and what He’s here to do,… More
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