WHAT SAYS LOVE BETTER THAN…
To love is to give. To give us to love. Love does.
Bob JonesDecember 4, 2013
Top 10 Posts
My top 10 blog posts. They come from some of my favourite writers and leaders. #1. SANDI KRAKOWSKI – CREATED FOR GREATNESS – “Have you ever noticed that we train people for GREATNESS as the people of God, but when someone starts embracing their greatness, they oftentimes get accused of being filled with vain ambition, worldliness or even sin? “ (continue reading…) #2. ANNE LAMOTT – I AM CUCKOO BUT HOPE IS ON THE WAY – (This is a year old but never out of date) “We are now in the third week of Advent, which is a big time of year for my Jesusy people. The new church year begins and a new note is struck: It is a…
Bob JonesDecember 1, 2013
15 Principles for a Better Way to Live
Today is a special gift from God. He was once a 35-year old derelict, alcoholic, who planned to spend his last dollars on a gun so he could kill himself. Ten years later he had become a multi-millionaire after selling over 50 million books including his most popular, "The Greatest Salesman in the World." Og Mandino summed up the principles that transformed his life in what he called, "A Better Way to Live." 1. Count your blessings. 2. Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. 3. Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. 4. Always reward your long hours of labour in the…
Bob JonesNovember 27, 2013
BREAKING THE WORRY HABIT BEFORE IT BREAKS YOU
Its not as though there aren't things that are worthy of worry. If you start with financial pressures, work expectations, cutbacks, relational strains, health crises...where do you stop? However, over half of Canadians report irritability, anger, fatigue or sleeplessness. Worry can be a bad habit...the most deadly one. Worry kills more people than work because more people worry than work. How To Break The Worry Habit Before It Breaks You 1. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth and refuse to give it more. If you don't worry at all, that is living in denial. Worry has a productive function. It motivates you to take constructive action. Habitual worry paralyses you, causing you to slow down, pull…
Bob JonesNovember 20, 2013
A Life Saving Practice
How do you start your day? I begin mine with the Bible (and a coffee.) Reading the Bible has been more than a good habit. It saved my life. Distress. I went through a serious encounter with distress in the third year of my career as a pastor. For almost two months I was awakened in the middle of the night unable to breathe. My lungs felt like they were shutting down. If you've ever had the wind knocked out of you, that's how it felt. My doctor said it was not physiological. He asked me what was going on in my life. "Your body is under distress and is shutting down to protect you." Awakening. One morning, after the…
Bob JonesNovember 18, 2013
Powering A New Habit Off the Launching Pad
In October we encouraged people at North Pointe to become a "Minute Manager (MM)." The commitment was to form a habit of praying one minute everyday. We manage minutes...God manages miracles. Managing minutes is a way you can experience the power of "praying without ceasing." (1 Thessalonians 5:17) How are you doing with your habit of prayer? Have you had lift-off? How are you doing with any new habit you've started? "Breaking and making new habits is like the launch of a spacecraft like Apollo 11. To get to the moon those astronauts literally had to break out of the tremendous gravity pull of the earth. More energy was spent in the first few minutes of lift-off and the first…
Bob JonesNovember 6, 2013
IS THERE A STARMAKER?
The numbers are in and they are out of this world. According to a study released by astronomers from the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Hawaii, there are likely "tens of billions" of Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy. Consider that the Milky Way is just a typical galaxy within our universe, which contains hundreds of billions of galaxies. With tens of billions of Earth-like planets in each galaxy, our entire universe must contain billions of billions of Earth-like planets. Wow! (That’s the best scientific response I can give.) How The Numbers Add Up 1. Maybe we're not alone. Andrew Howard, astronomer at the University of Hawaii, says the new estimate of planets means there are 40…
Bob JonesNovember 4, 2013
5 COMMITMENTS YOU NEED TO MAKE TO YOURSELF
* Do you put off doing things that you need to do? * Can’t imagine how you could ever deal with so much clutter on your desk or in your closets? * Don’t know how to choose the perfect work-out program? * Wanting to read and pray everyday but can't find the right time? So you do...nothing. I’ve been there. Everyone has. But not everyone STOPS there. The secret to getting ahead is getting started. 5 Commitments To Make To Yourself TODAY: COMMITMENT #1: Today, I will take responsibility. Nothing in your personal, physical, professional and financial life will change until you start making changes. People are really, really good at self-deception (lying to ourselves keeps us from pain). The…
Bob JonesNovember 3, 2013
11 INSIGHTS TO PERSONALITY AND TEMPERAMENT
Dating couples always lie to each other. They don't mean to. They just want to put their best face forward. That's why people who are dating should keep both eyes open before they marry and then keep one eye closed after they marry. Assessing personality and temperament is one way to keep both eyes open. Assessments aren't a perfect science but they do provide valuable insight into the people who are closest to you (and why you love'em or not). Personality Types 1. The Golden Retriever (Peaceful Phlegmatic) is steady, reliable, balanced, content, loyal and carries others burdens, resists change, is unenthusiastic, and can be boring. 2. The Lion (Powerful Choleric) is confident, assertive, competitive, decisive, domineering, independent, self-reliant and…
Bob JonesNovember 2, 2013
11 Sayings to Fuel Your Fire
All fires need fuel. Self-motivation is the key to success. How do some of the world's most motivated and successful people do it? 11 Sayings to Fuel Your Fire: 1. "Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so." Carrie-Anne Moss 2. "I am building a fire and everyday I train I add more fuel. At just the right moment I light the match." Mia Hamm 3. "We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." Kenji Miyazawa 4."The brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if…
Bob JonesNovember 1, 2013