LifeLift

It’s impossible to ride a bike— at 20mph+ — while looking BACK over your shoulder.   Straight up, if you try it, you’ll crash 90% of the time. Same is true in life.   It’s almost IMPOSSIBLE to live forward while constantly looking back over your shoulder.     Here’s what that observation has to do with soul health…   We’re designed to grow by exploring the world around us....

Brandon Lazarre is the founder of Your Purpose Coaching, and serves as a life coach with a unique angle towards helping you discover your specific design… … that design, in turn, launches you into your purpose. 🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹 Brandon uses the analogy of an arrow— and says we’ve all been created, like arrows, differently than other arrows. Some arrows… 🎯 Explode and cause a big “boom,” like Rambo. 🎯...

My friend Randy has been working on a book, Immerse, for the past few months. This one is all about finding confidence in your faith, by learning who you really are… … that, in turn, provides you with certainty. 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋 Randy and I began this conversation by talking about butterflies— and how a caterpillar enters a cocoon and emerges as something totally new— something so radically different th...

Two of the joys we most crave— freedom from guilt & shame and authentic community— exist in the place which seems scariest, the light. Those who are willing to “go there” discover true freedom comes not in hiding, but in realizing there’s nothing more to cover-up. ++++   For years— probably a decade or more— I was told I needed to share my story with others. “There’s power in it. And heal...

We each have a body, a soul, and a spirit. It’s easy to confuse the soul and the spirit, but distinguishing each from the other is essential to walk in total health. ++++ One of the most difficult aspects of navigating life is the constant tension between what we believe in theory to be true— and what we “know” in reality to be true. For instance— The Bible tells us we are complete in Christ (Gala...

The resurrection isn’t only something that happened to Jesus, it’s something that also happened to you. +++++ Here’s why and how… Jesus not only died in our place, He also lived in our place… That is, He gives you His death and He gives you His life… and more— that’s actually just the tip of the iceberg. Let me explain… 500 years ago, Martin Luther taught that Jesus walked among us and lived as a...

Jesus did what He saw the Father doing. He was the exact replication of the Father such that when we see Jesus, we see the reality of what God is like through both His words & His deeds.

God doesn’t simply reveal truth to you so that you can study it; He reveals Himself to be encountered and experienced. When He shows you another facet of Himself (in this book or anywhere else!), He's inviting you to receive it. And, I guarantee, God is better experienced than merely explained. Moreover, He invites you to receive it— in full— right then, in that moment. There’s no waiting, and He...

In the final talk in our Life Planning series we discuss time management— and the reality of tradeoffs. 🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳 We’ve got to be honest with ourselves; we can’t do everything. And, a yes to one thing is most often a no to something else (and vice versa— a no now empowers us to say yes later). We shouldn’t see this as restrictive, but as freeing… … so freeing that we actually place things on our...

Wherever we focus our time + energy will grow— for good or bad. So, it’s important that we focus on the things we want to grow. In talk #3 we dive deep into the law of the harvest, that is, sowing and reaping. And, we see that it works in every area of life. 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎 Sowing and reaping is a principle implemented on the 3rd day when the power of seed bearing plants were spoken forth by God (Genes...

In talk #2 of the Life Planning series we discuss the soundtrack which plays in our heads. Who’s got a bad one, sometimes? ✋ And, who needs to change the story they tell themselves? ✋ Yeah— all of us at one point or another… Here’s why… 👉 We’ll live from the story that’s playing there moreso than any other thing. Whereas many of us are quick to “shut up” someone who speaks against us, we need t...

Many of us hate goal setting, but we know we should do it. That is, living with intentionality is better than “doing random” or just “going with the flow.” 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ But maybe there’s something about how we’re often taught to set goals that unsettles us moreso than the idea of goal setting itself. In this 4-part series, we break it down and offer another way to look at things, empo...

If any one thing is characteristic of ALL of us, it’s likely that inner struggle we feel… “I want to do this, but I know I should do that…” Or- “I don’t know WHY I did that thing right there— I’d already decided I wasn’t going to…” We do this with “big” things and “small” things, with actions we would classify as sins and everyday occurrences as simple as sleeping in too late, fudging on the diet,...

It’s easy to spiritualize the promises of God (detaching them from real life) or even futurize them (punt them to the after-life). Especially when things look bleak. Especially when things have looked bleak for a long time (we often think we won’t be disappointed if we feel that things are just *supposed to be this way, that things don’t get better until it’s all over). I do it all the time… I thi...

Without faith, it’s impossible to “please God” (Hebrews 11). That’s what the Bible says, anyway… It also says that obedience is essential in order to please God (John 15). Makes me wonder… How many times have people felt beat down, squooshed down, the life-sucked-out-of-them, and spiritually vaporized all because… 👉 they didn’t have enough faith, so (they were told that because of that) they were...

Too many times we view ourselves based on our past. We do this with all kinds of sins, shortcomings, failures, and missteps…. this labeling ourselves on the past rather than our potential. We do this because we understand that those things were actually once part of our identity. In fact, in the case of sin, the sins emerged from who we were. Sin is personal— it doesn’t exist apart from people. He...

The word “convict” can mean “to cast judgment as to guilt” or it can mean “to convince” (i.e., people in prison are called convicts, but beliefs we hold dear to use are often called CONVICTION). Which one does God do to us— because we read the the Holy Spirit convicts us…? Does He do the kind that is punitive? Or does He do the convincing kind…? My thoughts = You’re not being punished… When things...

“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sin, according to the riches of His grace, which He made abound toward us...” (Ephesians 1:7-8). +++ Redemption— in the ancient world— meant “freedom.” We toss it around, along with other “church words,” without really thinking too much about it… But the word is deep. And, as Jesus was called our Redeemer… it was a word that linked J...

“Christ became for each of us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption” (1 Corinthians 1:30). +++++ A few years ago I read Abba’s Child by Brennan Manning. In that book he reminds us of some of the perplexing truths in Scripture— * “All things work together for the good” (Romans 8:28). * “All things are made beautiful in His time” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Notice— Paul (who wrote Romans) d...

Lots of uncertainty in our stories… Sometimes you wonder who’s writing the script, right? Keep stepping, walking forward…. You have access to the Author (and Finisher)— “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such oppositi...

One day Jesus spoke to the religious elite (Luke 15). The people who were in “church” every Sabbath. The ones who kept the most definitive rules and measured others on their moral compass. They wondered why Jesus consistently did what I just mentioned- left those who thought they had it all together to befriend those whom we’re all sure don’t. Instead of just answering the question, He told the st...

Everyone in the body of Christ has a special purpose, something they offer that only they can bring. Learning how to encourage people to fulfill their destiny enhances their life and it blesses the church as a whole.

Answering some of the commonly asked questions about spiritual gifts not only helps us clarify what the gifts are, but it also empowers us to serve our purpose with even more clarity and confidence. Learn more about the project at www. LifeLift.online . Grab the paperback at https://amzn.to/2Zyvz6F  

God’s will for our lives can’t be reduced to a formula, as the true treasures of the Kingdom are found in relationship. Learn more about the project at www. LifeLift.online   Grab the paperback at https://amzn.to/2Zyvz6F  

Discovering your purpose includes working through the areas of instructional obedience, your natural talents + created design, and— then— your spiritual gifts. Learn more about the project at www. LifeLift.online   Grab the paperback at https://amzn.to/2Zyvz6F