Island Hopping

You'll start to hone your skills of listening, with a servant's heart.  For everyone wants to be understood, but nobody seems to be listening.  Because everyone is too busy trying to be understood!   I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

Your relationship with God is a long-term relationship.  Whether it started many years ago or it started just yesterday.  So, grasping a better understanding of long-term relationships is vital.  For, I pray, you're in this with God for the long haul!   I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

Don't do what you do out of some sense of guilt, shame, obligation or routine.  Do what you do because you want to.   I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

Transformation is hard.  If it wasn't hard, then everyone would be doing it!  Take a deep breath and claim your fear of the unknown.  Allow God to meet you in it and walk with you out of it.   Special props to The O'Neil Brothers Group for their acoustic version of "I Am A Rock".  You can find them wherever you listen to music.     I can't wait to hear about your journey. S...

God isn't judging your future by your past.  So why are you?   I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

Service is the fourth aspect to a devoted life of learning and growing in your personal relationship with God.  The quicker you realize that life isn't all about you, the happier you'll be!  I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

I’m going to introduced you to the third aspect of your devoted life.  Your life devoted to learning and growing in your personal relationship with God.  Your devoted life that will lead you to surrender to every change that God wants to make in your life.  The third aspect that I’m introducing you to on this Island is worship. I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

Prayer is not only your relationship with God, it's also God's relationship with you.  It's your connection with the one who created you, gifted you and walks with you.  Thus, prayer isn't merely something that you do, as part of your life.  Prayer is your life. I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

There’s a cute acronym that I learned as a child: Bible stands for Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth.  My understanding of and appreciation for the Bible has grown exponentially since my childhood.  But that old acronym still rings true in many ways.  On this episode I invite you to take three steps to deepen your understanding of God's word.   I can't wait to hear about your journey...

You've surrendered your secrets and you've taken off your masks.  Now what?  You have a lot of time and energy on your hands.  Time and energy that was used keeping your secrets and wearing your masks.  Now there's a vacuum in your life.  An empty space wear there used to be something.  Or is there?    I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

Grace abounds!  But grace is truly powerful when it's received and then released to other people.  So give grace generously.  For that is exactly what God has done for you! I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

The world wants you to think that you're being real with yourself, with God and with others.  Without any possibility for transformation.  So, the world has created labels.  It's time we broke the world's labels. I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

Your un-surrendered secrets are causing you to wear masks.  To pretend to be someone that you aren't.  It's time that you surrendered your secrets and took off your masks.  So that you can have a close, intimate, personal relationship with God.   I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

It's time to get to work.  In this episode you will learn three things that you can implement into your life, right now, in order to avoid being a hypocrite.   I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

This is the third rule of being real.  The rule that will set you free to be who you've been created and gifted to be.  And, bonus, the rule that will set other people free to be who they've been created and gifted to be.   I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

Before we get into Rule #3, I want to pause for a moment and talk about something very important.  Something that’s vital not only for your life and your journey to be, but also for everyone else’s life and journey to be.  It’s a relational issue regarding the fact that you’re a sacred child of God and that God has showered you with grace.  This new identity and this new revelation about God’s gra...

Why are so many people afraid to be real?  Why is it that there are people out there who are willing to climb a sheer cliff wall, without ropes?  Yet, this very same person would never consider being real with themselves, with God and with others?   I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

Us humans are great at labeling ourselves and others.  So, let's be real, labels are unavoidable, on this side of eternity.  So, I propose that you accept a new label for yourself as well as for all others. I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

On this Island you’re invited to be real with yourself, with God and with others.  Your invited to surrender your secrets and take off your masks.  The only thing that you have to do, on this Island, is to be you.  Allow God to meet you, the real you, right here, right now.  And allow God to walk with you, into who you will become. I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

As a follower of Jesus, you can be many things.  But a hypocrite isn't one of those things.  It's time for you to get real with yourself, your God and with others.  Surrender your secrets and take off your masks.   I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

This is my last ditch effort to give you reasons to believe.  Yes, the title of this episode does in fact connect to the fake conspiracy theory that was started by Peter McIndoe.  The point is this: There are fake conspiracy theories out there.  But Jesus ain't one of them! I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

It all comes down to relationship over and above religion.  Not that religion is bad, in and of itself.  But relationship is what God truly desires.  And the fact of the matter is that sometimes religion gets in the way of relationship. I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

Sweat equity is the contribution to a project or enterprise in the form of effort and toil.  It's the ownership interest, or increase in value, that is created as a direct result of hard work by the owner.  Now that you find yourself on the road less traveled by, it's time to sweat. I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

You have your want to list and you've taken the time to clearly understand the answers to your "why" questions.   Now let the transformation begin!  For God is in the road less traveled by business.    I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!

This is where the work begins.  You get to discover your super-power - WANT TO!  What do you want to?  For you will always find a way to do what you want to.  Big THANK YOU to the students of Little Disciple's Preschool for their help with this episode.      I can't wait to hear about your journey. Send me a text!