As we enter the Christmas season, it takes us back to our childhoods - thumbing through Christmas catalogs and circling gifts we hoped to find under the tree. We all experience the ongoing tension between hope and disappointment every day. Pursuing...

Greed is the master of disguise. It's so deceptive that you might not notice it, even when it's bossing you around. And once it does, this boss will never be satisfied. It always demands more. There's only one way to tell greed...

Anger is a powerful force of destruction in our lives. Angry people usually began being angry people because they felt someone owed them something, but the debt was never "paid." When that debt is left unpaid, anger will start bossing you...

Guilt is a heavy weight to carry. Most of us either wallow in guilt, reliving the past, or we deny it and make excuses. Either way, guilt is a terrible boss. There is only one way to gain freedom from the power of guilt, but the solution sounds too...

Whatever is in our hearts will eventually spill into our words and actions. That's why we shouldn't be as focused on behavior modification as we are on monitoring our hearts. Until we do that, negative emotions will be your boss. But once...

The size of the vision you have for your life is shaped by the size of your view of God. If you see God as being little, your ambitions will also be little. If you have a big view of God, this will give you a big vision for your life. It's an...

We tend to pray for safety, for success, for comfort. That's kind of ironic since our country is the safest, most successful, and most comfortable nation in the history of the world. In fact, it's more than ironic, this is the reason why...

All the prayers in this series have required great courage and vulnerability to authentically pray. This one might be the hardest. It is the request to God that He would strip away all dependency we have on ourselves in order that we might be...

Ricky Bobby praying to 8lbs 6oz baby Jesus is pretty funny. His misinformed view of God leads to a hilarious, and ineffective, prayer. But are you sure your view of God is fully aligned with reality? Prayer is a communicative response to our...

So much of what we pray is safe, boing, and predictable, and it's stuff that will mostly work out by itself, even if we don't pray for it. David modeled what it looks like to begin to pray with fire. He taught us to ask God to search our...