Friends, here are some notes from my daily journals.  You might be able to use them to guide your own daily devotions.  I hope you enjoy them!

Anyone who wants to live all out for Christ is in for a lot of trouble. (2Tim 3:13)

Conviction and confession is a result! Belief and behavior is a blessing.

This is the only race worth running. (2Tim 4:8)

The main and central action is everywhere and always what God has done, is doing and will do for us, our main and central task is to live in a responsive obedience to God’s action revealed in Jesus.

Keep your ‘feelings’ healthy and in good working order. Keep emotion in its place. Too much emotion will dull your feelings. Feelings require framing. Emotion (unguarded responses) needs to be held in check by well exercised feelings.

When we add our two cents’ worth to the purity and simplicity of Jesus, we dilute the purity, clutter the simplicity, we get in the way. (Hebrews) We need to get out of the way and on THE way!

-Andrew

Everyone, please excuse my long absence, I am hoping soon to start up writing again.  I will also be posting some of my journal notes from the past years that I think you might like as well.  Until then, here is a blog that was brought to my attention today.  It discusses a topic that we address here at the G42 Leadership Academy.  What are you waiting for?!

DO YOU NEED A PERMIT? (from Seth Godin’s blog)

Where, precisely, do you go in order to get permission to make a dent in the universe?

The accepted state is to be a cog. The preferred career is to follow the well-worn path, to read the instructions, to do what we’re told. It’s safer that way. Less responsibility. More people to blame.

When someone comes along and says, “not me, I’m going down a different path,” we flinch. We’re not organized to encourage and celebrate the unproven striver. It’s safer to tear them down (with their best interests at heart, of course). Better, we think, to let them down easy, to encourage them to take a safer path, to be realistic, to hear it from us rather than the marketplace.

Perhaps, years ago, this was good advice. Today, it’s clearly not. In fact, it’s disrespectful, ill-advised and short sighted. How dare we cheer when a bold changemaker stumbles? Our obligation today isn’t to spare the feelings of our peers from future disappointment. It’s to establish an expectation that of course they’re going to do something that matters.

If you think there’s a chance you can make a dent, GO.

Now.

Hurry.

You have my permission. Not that you needed it.