Growing your faith…
Today, links to four posts asking critical questions about how we grow our faith…
- What’s your excuse?
- Were you born weak?
- Got a bucket list?
- Want to make the perfect decision?
Click on the links to read posts from Jon Acuff, Tim Challies, David Rupert and Allison Vesterfelt….
1. What’s your excuse?
Got a dream? Something you want your life to be known for?
Maybe not something even that grandiose… maybe just something you want to be able say, “that’s what I did today. That’s what I did this week.”
You have said you are going to eat less, write that novel, talk to you friend/spouse/children/co-worker about the subject that no one will mention (whatever that mnight be…)
You step up… you are ready to take action… and then your mind is filled with uncountable excuses for not taking action…
Allison Vesterfelt has faced the same dilemma…
Read her thoughts from her post on her blog, allisonverstefelt.com
2. Were you born weak?
Maybe your excuse for not taking action is that you were born weak… weak in faith…
So says Tim Challies as he explores how to grow you faith by exercising your “faith muscles”….
By taking a first step when you don’t know the outcome….
By putting the results in God’s hands…
Read his thoughts from his blog challies.com as he declares we can only grow our faith by exercising it…
3. Want to make the perfect decision?
Waiting to make a decision until you know that it will be the one that leads to success?
Good Luck!
Read Jon Acuff’s post from his blog acuff.me, as he looks at the futility of waiting for the perfect moment to make the perfect choice…
4. Who needs a bucket list?
Taking action, making good decisions, stepping out in faith…
How often we focus our thoughts and actions on what we will accomplish in this world, on items that fit nicely on a bucket list.
David Rupert cautions that we may be looking at far too limited a time frame…
Read his provocative thoughts from his blog, redletterbelievers.com
