by Carey Green | Apr 11, 2017 | Discipleship, Jesus, Life, mindset
What would you receive if everything you got in life was doled out to you according to your belief in God’s ability and willingness to do it? I’m not being clever here, I’m asking the question implied in this passage. Let me quickly tell you the...
by Carey Green | Apr 4, 2017 | Discipleship, Jesus
Jesus said some painfully hard things to people who had great hearts. The first guy in this passage expressed his eagerness to become a Christ-follower and instead of delighting in his decision, Jesus points out how hard it will be. The second guy had an important...
by Carey Green | Mar 28, 2017 | Discipleship, Jesus, Life
Nothing hurts quite like an “I told you so.” It hurts because we were clearly warned about a danger and we chose to ignore the warning. Why do we do that? In my experience, it’s because… (A) We couldn’t see the danger. Or… (B) We...
by Carey Green | Mar 21, 2017 | Discipleship, Prayer
Many years ago when my wife and I were working to start a church we received an incredible gift at just the right time. The job I was working didn’t meet the bills. It was a season where we truly didn’t know where the rent money was going to come from each...
by Carey Green | Dec 6, 2015 | Discipleship, Life
Lately, I’ve been taking at least one shot right between the eyes from this guy every morning… Take every opportunity of humbling yourself before God and man. ~ Andrew Murray Those words jumped off the page at me this morning as I read Murray’s...
by Carey Green | Sep 2, 2015 | Discipleship, Life, mindset
If you’ve not heard of Periscope, you should check it out. People all over the world are using the app to “live stream” video of them or whatever is going on around them. Sounds a bit vain in some respects… but then again, so does Facebook,...
by Carey Green | Jul 16, 2015 | Business, Discipleship
Being a citizen of heaven while living on earth can be difficult at best. Especially when we’re working to provide for our families, gain new clients, and earn money. Part of the difficulty comes in the fact that we are to have our minds set on heavenly things...
by Carey Green | Apr 13, 2015 | Business, coaching, Discipleship
Stay hungry… It was the summer of 1980. I was 13 years old. And I was the hungriest I’d ever been in my life. I was in the middle of my “ordeal,” an initiation exercise to gain entrance into a special group within the boy scouts known as the...
by Carey Green | Apr 10, 2015 | Business, Discipleship
Business success may or may not come – that’s God’s prerogative alone. But that doesn’t mean that you have nothing at all to do with it… [tweetthis hidden_hashtags=”#Christianbusiness”]God is who He is & will do what...
by Carey Green | Apr 6, 2015 | Business, Discipleship, Life
“Poor in spirit” is not a way most people want to be described… and in business is sounds like something that could allow your competition to walk all over you. But being “poor in spirit” is a position before God that Jesus said is a...
