Do you know the TRUE power that comes from goals?

The new year brings us and ideal time to pause and reflect on some important questions.

Seriously, have you ever been more ready for the New Year?  We know we are!

Do you think God wants you to be happy??

Are you a people pleaser???

We know we are - BUT we're trying hard to change that.

Now you might be thinking - wait, why would you change that - doesn't God call us to love and serve others?  

Yes, He most absolutely does.

But He wants us to do that for His approval and praise, NOT for human approval and praise.  

You see people pleasing is actually all about us.  We people please to get people to like us, to accept us, to approve of us.

Our brain is always seeking pleasure and feeling accepted and approved by others is something that bring us great pleasure.

So what's wrong with a little pleasure in our life, right? 

Well nothing, but when we fall into Satan's trap of incessant people pleasing - like so many of us do -  then it brings unintended consequences and takes our lives down paths we didn't intend to go.

God's truth?  He wants us to serve others in a way that's pleasing to Him, not in a way that's ONLY pleasing to us.

Join us to learn more about the dangers and pain associated with people pleasing and what you can do to become a "reformed" people pleaser like we're trying to do.  

There's trouble ahead when you live only for the approval of others, saying what flatters them, doing what indulges them.  Popularity contests are not truth contests... Your task is to be true, not popular.  Luke 6:26 MSG

We're sure you've wondered many times why other people act in ways that seems so illogical to you.  We know we do!  

The answer can be found in our belief systems.

Our belief systems are a set of principles we've developed through a lifetime of thoughts about our experiences - and then having those same thoughts over and over and over again.

They become our guide that drives our actions and the results we create in life.

That's great when those principles serve us like our belief in God...BUT not-so-great when they don't.

Think limiting beliefs like - I'm not good enough, nothing ever works for me, if only I was thinner, I'll never be successful.   

These are difficult to overcome because they're so deeply ingrained in us that we don't even realize all the ways they're showing up in our life.

God's truth?  He doesn't want us to let them hold us back.

Join us to learn more about your belief systems and how we can learn to overcome those holding us back from God's abundant life.  

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Romans 12:2

What does holiday family time look like for you??  

Do you look forward to family time as a chance to bond with those you love...  

Or do you show up anxious about having to face challenging relationships...  

...for most of us there's probably some of both.   

NOT SURE WHETHER TO GO TO YOUR FAMILY GATHERING THIS YEAR???  Check out our recent Facebook Live about just that.  

Relationships play a vital role in our human lives because God made us to crave connection, approval and love.   

So poor relationship health - especially with family - is going to lead to much stress and anxiety.    

God doesn't give us specifics on how to handle family conflict but there's very clear guidance on how we should be treating others through His 2nd greatest commandment - LOVE OTHERS.  

God also gifts each of us with the ability to follow-through on doing that - EVEN with the most challenging people in our lives.    

Join us for this week's timely episode as we share 4 ways to show up with more intention, with more love for everyone in your family.   

By doing so you'll decrease the holiday stress and raise your - and others' - holiday spirits.   

"And here is the second: Love others as well as you love yourself.  There is no other commandment that ranks with these."  Mark 12:31 MSG

The Bible's pretty clear that God wants us to grow in Him, to grow in Christ - but what about growing in other areas of our life?  

God has blessed each of us with many gifts - time, our brains, our bodies, various skills and abilities.  What do you think He wants us to do with those gifts?   

We believe we are called to be caretakers of those gifts and use them the best we can.    

We believe God created us with an innate desire to grow all our gifts through Him.  

We believe God wants the best for us and He knows the best for us comes when we are continuously growing.  

We believe God doesn't want our 50%, our 75% - He wants our best.  

We believe continuously growing His gifts is how we can show up as our best selves for Him by showing up as our best selves for others.  

Want to learn more about how you can grow your gifts?  Join us for this week's episode as we share exactly that - plus a key parable that shows how God wants each of us to grow.  

So I run with purpose in every step...I discipline my body like an athlete training it to do what it should.  1 Corinthians 9:26-27

Do you feel like there's always 72 things on your to-do list?  And as soon as you get a few crossed off, there's a few more to add.  

Want to know what we finally figured out?  You CAN create more time.   

No not more hours to the day but more hours to OUR day.  

There's something inside our human brains that resists planning our time - it tells us it's too restrictive, it tells us it's inefficient.  

But here's what we learned and have experienced - the more you plan and make decisions ahead of time the more efficient you'll be AND the more freedom you'll have.   

In our last episode, we showed how making good use of our time on this earth is important to God.  Join us this week to learn how you can do just that by creating more time for yourself and get your to-do list under control once and for all.  

Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.  Psalm 90:12

When you think time management you probably don't think about the Bible.   

Neither do we so we were shocked to see how many references the Bible has about how we should be using our time.  

We recently got much more serious about how we are using ours.  Wanna know why?  

Because we finally got fed up with how busy it seemed like we always were - YET we were never making much progress on the things most important to us.     

That's when we decided to dig into what guidance God provides with this.  

The Bible clearly shows how we use our time on this earth is important to God -- and for living out His purpose for our life.    

Want to learn more about what God says about this?  Join us for this week's episode as we share a number of verses and what they mean to us about how we should be managing our lives in the time He's blessed us with.  

Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.  Psalm 90:12