Ganon

Great leaders don’t have time to think about themselves because they’re too busy scheming ways to love other people and lift them up. Who can you do this for today? Blow their minds. Give them your office, maybe even your car. It’ll sound crazy right up until you do it.

Since Christ is our model for personal ministry, we too want to understand people so that we can serve him in their lives. We too must be committed to entering their worlds. We can begin by taking the time to ask good questions and listen well. Our hope is that others would seek us out and share more of their true struggles, so that they may find,

You can show love by serving as a mentor or by simply being available to others. You can pour into the lives of your wife and kids through family devotions and into the lives of other men with small, trusted friend groups. You can invest in your church by serving God well. You love like Jesus when you make an intentional effort to be His hands and

The second half of thinking like Jesus is to start thinking maturely, which focuses on others, not yourself. In his great chapter on what real love is, Paul concluded that thinking of others is the mark of maturity: “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways

Are you that kind of person? Do you honor and give preference to others? It’s amazing how much grace there is to go around when people, from the heart, honestly long for the success of others more than their own. It’s counterintuitive and so unlike the world’s values, but it is refreshing and invigorating when you experience it in relationships. Be

In Philippians 2:2–3, Paul says bluntly that Christians should “in humility consider others better than [them]selves.” Notice that he doesn’t say that we should unrealistically try to believe that all others are better than us in every way. That would be nonsense. Rather, we should consider and count the interests of others as more important than o

Look into the eyes of the ones who are hardest for you to like, and see the One you love.

The emotion behind much overthinking is fear—fear of being out of control, of being overwhelmed, of failure, of impending danger, of panic, and so on. The feeling is valid. But that doesn’t mean it’s true. It certainly doesn’t mean it’s helpful! And if we act out of fear, we often only end up creating more fear anyway. But we have the option to obs