Twitter notified me of a new message. “Paring back some of the trading long rentals to be safe in here, volume wanting but action the world’s fair.” The cryptic message from a fellow stock trader launched me into a burst of anxious action. I was a stock trader. Every morning at 6am my eyes popped [...]
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Once a stock trader – The Value of Garbage is Still Zero (Part 4)
Posted in Biblical Solutions, Complacency, Cross of Christ, Decision making, Money on June 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The Value of Garbage is Still Zero (Part 3)
Posted in Biblical Solutions, Complacency, Decision making on June 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Thy will be done The Lord’s prayer offers insight for the bewildered saint who is struggling for answers, for it offers hope of clear vision through clouds of personal interests and biases. This clear vision can be found when we fall to our knees with a heart that cries “thy will be done.” The cry [...]
Weekend Resource: Never Read a Bible Verse
Posted in Bible Study, Biblical Solutions, Quiet time, Recommended Reading, Weekend Resource on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Resource: This is a short, easy read by By Gregory Koukl that explains the value of reading more than one verse during quiet time. According to Greg, it is “the most important thing I could ever teach you.” He goes on: “If there was one bit of wisdom, one rule of thumb, one single skill [...]
The Value of Garbage is Still Zero (Part 2)
Posted in Biblical Solutions, Complacency, Decision making on May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The gray areas: here comes confusion Our hearts will recoil after the Holy Spirit identifies pieces of rubbish that we have treasured, and a battle with ensue. Why is it difficult to let go of rubbish? Because difficult choices frequently deal with grey areas where easy answers and clear cut lines are nonexistent. How then [...]
The value of garbage is still zero
Posted in Biblical Solutions, Complacency, Decision making on May 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Value what is most valuable Philipians 3:7-8 “But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in [...]
Weekend Resource: An Approach to Extended Memorization of Scripture
Posted in Bible Memory, Biblical Solutions, Recommended Reading, Weekend Resource on May 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Resource: “An approach to extended memorization of Scripture” by Dr. Andrew Davis. Summary: Dr. Andrew Davis expounds on not only the value of Bible memory, but the value of memorizing passages instead of single verses. We struggle enough to discipline ourselves to memorize a single verse. How can we be expected to tackle a passage? [...]
Quiet time: Reading my glorified newspaper
Posted in Bible Study, Biblical Solutions, Quiet time on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have I turned the Bible into a glorified newspaper, approaching it with a heart attitude that has sucked the life out of my quiet time? I was reading THIS last night, and it occurred to me that when I approach God’s word, often I am coming to read instead of commune. Psalm 119, as the [...]
Love precedes obedience
Posted in Biblical Solutions, Love on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” A simple if-then statement from Jesus found in John 14. I have looked at it a thousand times, yet it was not until today that I saw it with understanding. Here are the facts, implied by the verse: 1. If you do not love Christ, you [...]
10 Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health
Posted in Biblical Solutions, Quiet time, Recommended Reading on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
10 questions to ask yourself Donald Whitney, in his book, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health, poses 10 questions. 1. Do you thirst for God? 2. Are you governed increasingly by God’s Word? 3. Are you more loving? 4. Are you more sensitive to God’s presence? 5. Do you have a growing concern for [...]
Taste and See: Part 5 – Leave the moment you know that you should not have come
Posted in Biblical Solutions, Taste and See on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hebrews 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. Philipians 3:8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all [...]
Weekend Resource: 18 tricks to memorize more scripture
Posted in Bible Memory, Biblical Solutions, Quiet time, Weekend Resource on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Resource: 18 Tricks to Memorize More Scripture, by Demian Farnworth. Farnworth gives not only the reasoning behind the importance of Bible memory, but also goes further and gives 18 highly practical tricks for making Bible memory easier and more effective. Recently, I have spent time writing about the importance of the Word in our fight [...]
Taste and See: Part 4 – The Word
Posted in Bible Study, Biblical Solutions, Taste and See on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John 17:17 “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” If out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks (Luke 6:45)…and we are feeding our heart poison, what comes from our mouth? We might be temped to say, “I don’t talk about inappropriate and vulgar things, I don’t cuss much,” but does [...]
Weekend Resource: 7 Minutes with God
Posted in Bible Study, Biblical Solutions, Quiet time, Weekend Resource on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Resource: 7 Minutes with God: How to plan a daily quiet time, by Robert D. Foster (Navigators) Take a moment and think of someone you know who only been told why to have a quiet time, not how. This pamphlet is concise and effective in explaining the why’s and how’s of a quiet time. In [...]
Taste and See: Part 3 – Entertainment
Posted in Biblical Solutions, Taste and See on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Psalm 101:2-4 “I will give heed to the blameless way When will You come to me? I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart. I will set no worthless thing before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not fasten its grip on me. A [...]
Taste and See, Part 2
Posted in Biblical Solutions, Taste and See on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In November, the Lord put Psalm 34 on my heart, and I compared the Jeremiah 2:19 account of the bitterness of sin with tasting of the Lord’s goodness in Psalm 34:8. But Lord, as You continue to “open our eyes to behold wondrous things of Your law,” we do not want to merely stop with [...]
