Tactic Of The Day: Overly Empathetic We love because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19 Empathy, what an amazing emotion given to us by God. The ability to see that someone is struggling and to internalize that within ourselves and feel for the person we are seeing struggle. Empathy is an extension of love because it shows a part of our heart that we can understand and want someone to be helped. Is it possible to be too empathetic though? If so, where would this line be? Let’s break down biblically how to manage empathy while not being manipulated […]
There were a few astonishing statistics I saw the other week regarding youtube watch time. Some of these numbers are almost unfathomable so bear with me. The first stat I read was that youtube has on average 122 million individual users watch their platform every single day. First of all this number is absolutely astronomical. The fact that every single day in a 24 hour window the number of people watching youtube is greater than in most countries. To give perspective there are 11 countries in the entire world that have more then 122 million people and youtube has that […]
Tactic Of The Day: Attacking Repentance There are certain words in the christian belief system that really are absolutely critical to understand. Repentance is one of those words. There is a stereotypical belief of what repentance is but we are going to dive in biblically and look at it. Let’s start with scripture and look at 2 Corinthians 7:9-10 yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that […]
Tactic Of The Day: Humor That Hurts One of my fondest memories growing up was a long travel trip with my brother and mom from Utah to Washington state. The drive took a few days to complete and on this drive one the things we did was listen to the sirus-xm comedy radio stations. We spent 2 full days laughing at all these different comedias and after hours and hours of listening I just could not believe people had the job to just make people laugh. It was so fun and such a core memory I really remember thinking how […]
Tactic Of The Day: Attacking Our Boldness There was a very powerful series that we went through in church this past month and it was talking about how we all have a story. The way the whole series started was when our pastor stood at the pulpit and asked us the audience a question. He asked us to raise our hands if we had a story that was worth telling. When he asked the question about 10 percent of the audience raised their hands. Not even 2 minutes into the sermon you could see the tactics of torment working across […]
Tactic Of the Day: Pigeonholing The Text For us as people many times we run into a position where we think that we have life figured out. We could be successful in a career field, we could have some great relationships, we could have done some super cool things in our past but the common theme for people is that we got things figured out. I was listening to a podcast the other week and I heard a really funny line by the host and he said “if my 3 pound brain could completely understand God we would not have […]
Tactic Of The Day: Condemning Memories Our brains are one of the most amazing things in this world. There are studies that show on average we are having about 60,000 thoughts in a single day. What a substantial number that our brains are processing information.. Studies go on to say out of those 60,000 thoughts 5 percent are conscious, meaning we actively put thought into them and they are noticed. 5 percent of 60,000 is still 3000 thoughts in a single day that your conscious is putting active energy into. The interesting thing about all these thoughts is how many […]
Your Truth: Tactic Of The Day There is a saying that I’ve heard more and more in my life that is taking over society and it is people saying “ live your truth”. There was a time in my life I’ll never forget and a gentleman I was working with was in a position where he knew a few different sides to a single story. As he was bringing me in on this story he started by saying “Well, here is how life works there are 3 truths. Your truth, the other person’s truth and then what the real truth […]
Tactic Of The Day: Supplement’s vs Sustenance Something I often think back to in history is the idea that literacy was not really obtainable for most people. As you are sitting reading this article there was a time in history and even up to relatively recent history where small percentages of populations could read. A major contributor to this change was the invention of the printing press in 1440. After this invention the amount of books able to be made sky rocketed and this gave more opportunity for literacy and it was not a small group of elites withholding information. […]
There are certain moments in life that put you in a position where you have the opportunity to instantly level up in your development. One of the times this happened to me was 2 years ago. I was away on a work trip and I saw my wife calling, my first thought was “is she okay”, she rarely calls me during work. I answered and she said “well I have something to tell you” and took a long pause after saying that. I was about ready to tell her to hurry up and tell me because I still didn’t know […]