Chad Hudson

Jesus opens the door to prayer and tells you how he gets things done (7:7). He asks for help from his Father. He talks to his Father and tells him what he wants. Prayer is the positive side of the surrendered will. As you stop doing your own will and wait for God, you enter into his mind. You begin to remain in him . . . to abide. This is the prayi

The Losers Are Your Responsibility

Summary:

A godly dad doesn't win every game, but he aims for a positive trajectory.

The losers are apathy and negativity, not other families or kids. The goal is to defeat evil and negativity.

Being a better dad than others or than last year isn't the metric for progress.

Being faithful and staying in the arena is what

There are of course kinds of thinking that can be done without writing. If you don't need to go too deeply into a problem, you can solve it without writing. If you're thinking about how two pieces of machinery should fit together, writing about it probably won't help much. And when a problem can be described formally, you can sometimes solve it in

Will (Spirit, Heart) Volition, or choice, is the exercise of will, the capacity of the person to originate things and events that would not otherwise be or occur. By ?originate? here we mean to include two of the things most prized in human life: ... freedom and creativity. These are really two aspects of the same thing when properly understood, wh

There are different types of hard work:

1. Outthinking (a better strategy, a shortcut)


2. Pure Effort (working longer, intensity)


3. Opportunistic (positioning yourself to take advantage of change)


4. Consistency (doing average things for longer)


5. Focus (saying no to distractions)

Each of these requires a different type of hard work.

Preaching does not point primarily at what happened to others—it points to us.

Four steps: choose a field, learn enough to get to the frontier, notice gaps, explore promising ones. This is how practically everyone who's done great work has done it, from painters to physicists.

In contrast, if you lead with sarcasm or biting remarks, people will respond the same way. And if they can't, they'll gradually lose respect for you.

The Bible calls the time between the first and second comings of Christ ‘the last days’ (e.g. 2 Timothy 3:1; James 5:3). This is the period in which the New Testament letters were written and in which we still live today. It lies in the intersection of two ages: ‘this present age’ and ‘the age to come’ (e.g. Matthew 12:32; see Figure 34). The kingd