The Bereans

Choose Your Cycle: Virtuous or Vicious

Liz Wiseman (2010) suggests that actions create “self-perpetuating” (p. 36)  cycles. She explains the virtuous cycle and the vicious cycle. What we do determines what we get. You can hide […]

Avoid the Temptation to Sabotage, pt. 2

In the last entry, we looked at the risk of being “under” affliction for so long that we succumb to the conditioning and can sabotage ourselves. Today, I want us […]

Avoid the Temptation to Sabotage

Dear Ones,  Do not think yourself so far “under” struggle or affliction that 1) things will never and improve and 2) you will not know life with God’s promise fulfilled […]

The Lord has a Way

Good day to all. This is just to encourage us all further… The Lord has a way of showing us He remembers us. If you’re at a place where the […]

The Beginning of Beautiful

My pastor preached recently about how God will use the foolish things to confound the wise, and bring about His purpose. He talked about “crazy stuff” that will happen, and […]

What the Lord Knows (encouragement)

Royal Ones, here is what the Lord knows. Be encouraged. All references are from the New American Standard Bible.  He knows our way — Psalm 1:6, For the Lord knows […]

Prayer: Try Something New

Here’s another E. M. Bounds quote. …Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital [,] the most joyous, the most efficacious (fruitful), the most powerful of all […]

Public. Private. Secret.

Y’all, blame this one on Blue Bloods again. A protected celebrity said something to the detective that got me. The detective disagreed, but the celebrity insisted. Everybody’s got three lives: public, […]