Rubel Shelly risks being misunderstood by talking about the frustration of trying to win God's grace by living perfectly and over-analyzing our sins, failures, mistakes, and missteps.
12/04/2012 by Rubel Shelly
Rubel Shelly reminds us of the moral climate behind the messes that we often cause and the way out of the mess we are in.
11/25/2012 by Rubel Shelly
Max Lucado reminds us that pride often keeps us in failure and compounds mistakes and sinks us deeper in sin.
08/24/2012 by Max Lucado
Ron Rose reminds us to own our mistakes, stand up, and look for God's presence to carry us going forward.
01/10/2011 by Ron Rose
Rubel Shelly uses the recent world series and a few Casey Stengel stories about the early days of the Mets to remind us that the we need to get back to the basics of what we do as believers: love God and love each other.
11/10/2009 by Rubel Shelly
Rubel Shelly talks about his medical ethics class and the importance these students put on telling the truth in all situations.
10/05/2009 by Rubel Shelly
Phil Ware imagines a conversation that the apostle Peter might have had with a visitor to him in prison shortly before his execution.
07/16/2009 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware shares insight in his LifeWORDS series on the resurrection sayings of Jesus and how Jesus forgave and empowered his failures, his disciples, by this forgiveness.
06/18/2009 by Phil Ware
Tom Norvell looks at how the disciples must have felt right after Jesus' death and then talks about a year ending and the New Year beginning.
12/30/2008 by Tom Norvell
Mike Barres reminds us that inadequacy is an opportunity for God's power to be displayed and God to be glorified.
11/14/2008 by Mike Barres
Rubel Shelly reminds us that we are not perfect yet, and admitting our failures and imperfections is not an excuse, but an opportunity to meet God and have his grace help us grow.
11/13/2008 by Rubel Shelly
Rubel Shelly talks about the financial crisis, or better, crises, that are afflicting our economy and housing markets and foreclosure problems and points to one age old problem -- greed.
04/03/2008 by Rubel Shelly
Steve Higginbotham shares his problems with impulse buying and the bills that eventually come due and he compares it to how we live our lives and the big check out day that lies ahead.
02/17/2008 by Steve Higginbotham
Mike Barres talks about a real mess he made when he tried to cook when his wife was pregnant, but he tries again 28 years later to see if he can do it -- and does, reminding us to not quit with a failure.
02/09/2008 by Mike Barres
Russ Lawson reminds us that we are imperfect, that we make mistakes, and that God forgives those mistakes and makes us perfect in his sight if we will try to live for him.
01/12/2008 by Russ Lawson
Patrick Odum reminds us that overcoming temptation requires us to resist the devil, but he also adds some other insights from James' famous passage about overcoming temptation by being honest about oursleves and our need for God.
07/26/2007 by Patrick D. Odum
Mike Barres reminds us that taking moral shortcuts and fudging on things spiritually always end up in disaster and sin.
07/08/2007 by Mike Barres
God wants us to be humble, but he doesn't want to get down on ourselves or judge ourselves or anyone else, he chose us and will us to his glory.
12/01/2006 by Paul Faulkner
Failure and falling on our face is a part of life, the real question is whether or not we'll keep getting up.
02/27/2006 by Phil Ware
Don't quit in the middle of failure, but understand it is part of the learning and growing process.
07/13/2005 by Rubel Shelly
I messed up by assigning the wrong author to the article, but I'm not going to rationalize my mistake away!
02/06/2005 by Phil Ware
We all face the let down of failures on the next day; how will we handle the next day?
01/20/2005 by Tom Norvell