I am definitely NOT the Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane! But His words struck me hard yesterday morning as I face continuing procrastination masquerading as confusion: “’Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.’” (Luke 22:46b) Resisting temptation isn’t just deciding not to rob a bank or gamble the deed to your home in Vegas. It’s also the entrepreneur’s daily temptation to feel and pressure of DOING everything: yourself, family, house, church, friends, community member, oh, and your business–and sometimes, last, your alone time with God. Yet the KEY to resisting our everyday temptations of choosing the good (or the not-so-good) over God’s best is…

[Christian Spiritual Director post] I often pray for others. Well, I pray for some people every day of my life. I pray for others too as I know their needs. Often our prayer requests are for DELIVERANCE from disease, from financial need, from disrupted relationships, from so many things everyone experiences in a hard world. As a Christian, I have seen God answer again and again: sometimes quietly, sometimes miraculously. I have personally witnessed deliverance in my life and others’ lives. But this morning I remembered something that I knew and had forgotten. We live in a fallen world, a world under a curse. Obviously, God does not deliver His…

The Lord just reminded me of something. I’m studying Philippians 4:10-20. Paraphrasing vv. 10-13, Paul writes that he knows the secret of being content in any situation, whether in plenty or in want: Here’s the secret: “I CAN DO ALL THIS THROUGH HIM WHO GIVES ME STRENGTH.” This is an important verse in the Bible, and one so many of us turn to when we feel that we just CAN’T anymore. And because Paul was writing to the church at Philippi about money, we naturally think about it in terms of finances. Sure, “plenty” is lots more comforting and fun. It’s easy to be content then. But it becomes equally…