God doesn't need days and nights, the change of seasons, old years or new years. but he gives them to us for our benefit. As we close a year ,as well as a decade, and enter into the new, let's talk about how God can use pauses, starts, and stops in our lives to help us get where He wants us to be. This episode includes an evaluation resource to help you reflect on the past year and strategize for the new year.

Luke 2 is such a familiar passage this time of year that we can easily miss some amazing details about the story around Christ's birth. In fact, the guys to whom God chose to give the birth announcement were actually the introduction of a pattern to whom his ministry would be for. Check out some new thoughts on the traditional Christmas passage.

There's a man in every manger scene and every Christmas pageant that is always present but quite invisible to most people. But he was incredibly important to God. We can learn so much from this man as we read the Christmas story about his choices to obey God and love his wife.

Every great story has a villain and Jesus' birth is no exception. But we won't see this guy in the manger scenes. Herod was a egomaniacal genius who wanted to take out this baby King. But the cold hard fact is we all have a little Herod in us and that's exactly why Jesus had to come at all—to save us from sin and our selves.

The stats and the news feed tell us we have an epidemic on our hands. From young men with their lives ahead of them to middle-agers fighting off mounting stress to elders with a bleak future, taking ourselves out has become an option we can't and shouldn't take. In this episode, I share my own personal experience with suicide as well as three practical points to try and reach out to the men who are struggling, while encouraging other men to step up and speak out. My prayer is this episode saves someone's life ... maybe yours.

This is the first in a series of Christmas-focused features. In this episode, I talk about the Charlie Brown Christmas Special and the powerful truths we find in this animated timeless classic.

This is the fourth episode in a short series from my new book Believe Become Be: Becoming the Man God Believes You Can Be, releasing today, November 25.  Why did Jesus call some men and they dropped their nets and followed Him immediately and then He called other guys who gave Him some reason why they needed to delay going with Him? In this episode we look at Matthew 4:18-22 and Luke 9:57-62 for clarity on our own daily choice to follow Him or offer up an excuse.

This is the third episode in a short series focusing on my new book Believe Become Be: Becoming the Man God Believes You Can Be, releasing November 25. Today is a few thoughts from the second part of the book regarding Being a Man of Truth. I talk through some principles regarding our speech and personality, encouraging us all to allow Jesus to be Lord over both.

This episode is the second of a short series focusing on my new book Believe Become Be, releasing November 25. In this excerpt from the book, I talk about how the majority of the world's belief systems teach that you have arrived or been enlightened when you go from ignorance to knowledge in their religion. Jesus consistently taught that application, not simply belief or knowledge, was the arrival of faith in HIm. As James said in chapter 1, "Don't just listen to the Word. Do what it says." Believe to become to be.

This episode is the first of a short series focusing on my new upcoming book, Believe Become Be, releasing November 25. Topics include a look at Paul's raw and honest confession in Romans 7, the difference between doing and being, and the gift of realizing your heavenly Father believes in you.

Click to see the book here.