Today (October 18, 2015) is a significant milestone in my faith journey.
Fifteen years ago today, sitting at my computer in my dorm room, I gave my life to Christ and began a relationship with him. Along with that milestone, I also hit 10 years in full-time church ministry last month.
So I thought it’d be fun to reflect back and jot down a few lessons I’ve learned along the way.
The Internet is a giant, never-ending vat of visual temptation.
Pornography, celebrity sex tapes, websites dedicated to adult content/explicit images, half-naked women in ads.
It can appear quickly and from the most unexpected places.
I was listening to music from Pandora’s website once when a full-page ad of a half-dressed woman appeared as a new song started playing.
Pandora!? #nothelpful
That’s enough to get the mind traveling down the wrong path. Before you know it, you’re opening a new tab, visiting your go-to porn websites, and scouring the web for more. It’s a scenario I’ve repeated, and I know countless others have experienced as well.
So how can we combat porn and visually explicit images coming at us from every direction?
Why resist temptation tomorrow if you have the power to eliminate it today? ~@craiggroeschelClick To TweetIn this blog post, I’m going to show you two free ways I’ve eliminated visual temptation today, so that I won’t have to resist it tomorrow.
And I’ll show you step-by-step how you can use them too!
In the budgeting world, you won’t go far without hearing about Dave Ramsey’s EveryDollar. Being a long-time You Need a Budget (YNAB) user, I was curious to see how EveryDollar stacked up. Especially since EveryDollar has a free option.
Would EveryDollar be good enough to switch away from YNAB? Or at least worth recommending to friends who don’t want to pay for YNAB?
I focused on three areas I believe are important for any app wanting to help people get their money under control.
How easy is it to:
This post shares what I learned and crowns a winner!
Note: Because YNAB is a subscription service, I’ll be comparing YNAB to EveryDollar’s subscription service (called Ramsey+) with a separate section for the free version.
Let’s play a word association game. What’s the first thing that comes to mind when I say the following words/phrases.
My answers would be: skinny jeans, binge watching and working at a church.
Since I work at a church, people often ask me what it’s like to be in full-time ministry.
I hate this question.
It implies I’m in full-time ministry and you are not. Here’s the truth. If you’re a Christian, you are in full-time ministry.
Full-time ministry is not what your job is. It's the attitude you go into every day with.Click To TweetSo how about you tell me, what’s it like being in full-time ministry? What are ways we can all have that mindset each day?
Lately, I’ve been on a kettlebell kick.
I’m fascinated by the lure of just two kettlebell exercises causing a “what the hell?” effect.
The What the Hell Effect is well known throughout the kettlebell community. Doing kettlebell work, specifically kettlebell swings and turkish get-ups, has a way of improving all sorts of other physical activities that seem to be unrelated.
Premeditated Fitness
Living in the world of kettlebell swings and turkish get-ups has surprisingly brought clarity to a question Christians often wrestle with. How do we grow in our faith and mature in our relationship with Christ?
The answer begins with those two exercises.