My 100-Day Plan, Day 59: Have A Plan
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver, American poet During his nightly American Campfire Revival, Kirk Cameron’s encouraged each of us to have a plan. His 100-day plan started as a way to spread the word from The American Covenant: The Untold Story, a book about getting back to our history...
My 100-Day Plan, Day 58: Really Forgive, part three (the beauty of forgiveness)
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” Robert Muller I teared up when I stumbled onto Robert Muller’s perfect quote for my imperfect blog post. I’m a pretty good forgiver, but so high strung about anything emotional (like forgiveness) that I overtalk it. By the time...
My 100-Day Plan, Day 57: Really Forgive, part two (how to forgive)
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” Lewis B. Smedes The Parable of the Unforgiving Debtor in Matthew 18: 21-35 is just like us holding onto our unforgiveness after being forgiven and saved by Jesus. Jesus tells the story … A king took pity on his servant and pardoned the...
My 100-Day Plan, Day 56: Really Forgive, part one (why forgive?)
“A person who cannot forgive is a person who’s forgotten what they’ve been forgiven of.” Pastor JP Miller, paraphrased from Bait of Satan by John Bevere Since I’m really on a roll, I decided to add really forgive. I spent five weeks simultaneously going through two books about forgiveness: Bait of Satan: Living...
My 100-Day Plan, Day 55: Really Pray
“Prayer changes everything.” After I wrote about really reading our Bibles, I thought about how often I used to say “I’ll pray for you,” but I really didn’t. Sometimes I said it out of habit. Sometimes I said it because I didn’t know what else to say. Sometimes I said it because I meant to really pray, but I got distracted and...
My 100-Day Plan, Day 54: Jesus By Example
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.” Paul Coelho On day 47 of my 100-day plan, I posted “You Have One Job.” The blog post is about living our purpose, which is love God, love people. A friend commented that he and his family discussed ways to share Jesus without being preachy, intrusive, and judgmental. I...
My 100-Day Plan, Day 53: Influence Your People
“Life's about the people that surround you. The people you help.” Unknown Prophet Jim Reilly recently said, “I might have chosen speaking to thousands of people at a time, but God didn’t call me to that.” Instead of multitudes all at once, Jim travels around the Southeast and prophesies to groups of anywhere from 15 to 100 people. I’m...












