There’s an often repeated piece of advice in business and life that goes “control the controllables,” meaning that we should focus our efforts on things that we believe we can control versus those things that are out of our hands. But is anything in our lives truly under our control? God is sovereign and what happens in our lives is ultimately determined not by us, but by God. All things flow from Him, both the good blessings and the tests meant to grow our spiritual maturity

Have you ever found yourself becoming more “patient” with something just by releasing your care for it? In other words, just deciding not to care about something anymore because it is taking longer than you had hoped it would to change? We’ve all been there. But while there are things we just need to “let go and let God,” there are other things that God has given us responsibility over — and those things, we simply do not have the luxury of releasing our care for. So what do

One thing we all seem to want, especially as it relates to our nation, communities, jobs, and certainly our own lives, is a voice in our affairs. None of us really relishes situations where things are dictated to us, and we do not get to really understand why. But, such is a life of faith -- hearing and knowing God but not seeing or fully understanding His ways. It can be especially difficult when what we hear from God goes against what we want or believe is the best course o

We've all heard the saying that someone is the "salt of the earth," usually meaning that someone is decent, trustworthy, and prone to doing the right thing. However, that saying is much more than an old adage, it is Scripture; it is something that Jesus called his followers! But why would Jesus say something like this? Like many things in Scripture, the world has watered down the words to mean something else entirely -- sowing confusion and false belief, in this case, that so