by jgaroutte | May 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
“If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.” –Prov. 24:10 How do you increase strength? Exercise. Repeat the same motion again and again—even when it isn’t easy. Then you simply increase resistance incrementally over time. In other words, you...
by jgaroutte | Apr 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
I feel like there’s a mountain to conquer in my life at the moment. Slightly discouraged, I mentioned something about it to my wife (we’ve already been talking about it and making headway in the past couple weeks—finding our next step and taking it, then the next,...
by jgaroutte | Apr 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Read today’s Bible reading? Choose a Bible reading plan? Spend time in prayer? Ask a friend how their walk with God is going? Find a small group or Bible Study? Start a small group or Bible Study? Ask someone to mentor you? Reach-out to disciple another person? Begin...
by jgaroutte | Mar 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Did you hear me?” I snap out of tunnel vision, look away from the screen (Xbox controller in hand), and find my wife standing before me, slightly annoyed. “I’m sorry, what?” We’ve all seen this scenario play out before. Or with my children: “Pick-up your stuff.” Only...
by jgaroutte | Mar 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Occasionally, I get this feeling of unrest and nothing I do seems to fix it. There’s no apparent cause, I just get this sort of… ache or longing. It happened earlier this morning and I couldn’t focus on anything. Until, I realized I hadn’t spent time with God in the...
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