PARACLETOS BLOG

What will you attempt this week? At the end of the week, what will you regret having not started? You get to choose.

Not satisfied with where you are? Afraid you'll never escape your past to embrace your future? It might be good to remember how your future is fashioned. What are you expecting God to do?

Never stop learning. Just when you think you've figured it all out you run the risk of proving you don't.

Sometimes, when we're talking to God, the best thing we can say is nothing. Selah.

The way you look at things matters at least as much as what you look at. Maybe you can't see because you're standing in the wrong place.

Just because you haven't seen the future yet doesn't mean it isn't here already. Maybe you're looking in the wrong place.

Waiting is one of the hardest things we'll ever have to do. It is also one of the most productive. Don't rush it.

Find a gap and stand in it. Discover what's missing and be the provision. Look for the holes and plug them. Do anything but accept the status quo.

Now abide faith, HOPE, and love--these three. Without hope, faith is inactive. Without hope, love is dormant. Hope is the fuel that feeds our flame. Nothing is impossible.

You may be more familiar with John Wayne's version of this: "Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." Being scared is nothing to be afraid of. Saddle up!

The average American stops reading once they've graduated. Who wants to be average? Read to discover where God wants to take you, and what he dreams of doing once you get there.

Never underestimate the value of your contribution to a team. Multiply the difference you make.

Waiting may be the hardest work you ever do. It may also be the most important. Learn to do it well.

The world is so full of a number of things we should all be as happy as kings.

Maybe what you need is not so much a breakthrough as a break away.

Boredom and pain - normally we try to ignore them both. But if all moments are key moments, we need to pay attention.

Just because you are exhausted doesn't mean your options are. There's always one more thing to try...

Those who have never failed have never tried anything. Success is not lack of failure, it is persevering in spite of failure.

If our reputation is built only on what we have talked about doing, then our only valid reputation is that we are a dreamer. It is much better to be a doer, with a solid reputation of accomplishment.

Or as the old Chinese proverb supposedly says: 'Tis better to keep your mouth shut and be considered a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It's what we all want. It's everything any of us really wants. And it's exactly what God has provided for us in Christ.