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  • How Survival Instinct & Comfort Zones Screwed Us Up

    How Survival Instinct & Comfort Zones Screwed Us Up

    Human beings are wired with a survival instinct.  Some call it our reptilian brains and many are quick to reference Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as evidence. There has been a lot of more recent neuroscience to further affirm this human need for survival at all costs. This human nature, though, blurs the line between…

  • How to Know if You’re Pleasing God Through Your Actions

    How to Know if You’re Pleasing God Through Your Actions

    While spending this month considering God’s favor and wisdom, I’ve been continually reminded of a question I ponder often: how do we know if we are pleasing God? Specifically, what is pleasing to God and how do we go about pleasing God? This is the subject of a post I started researching several months…

  • Grow Up. And Then, Grow Up Some More.

    Grow Up. And Then, Grow Up Some More.

    It took a long while to find myself. To understand my God-given gifts and to understand how to use them. Along the way, I doubted myself, believed myself unworthy and generally felt like the deck of life was stacked against me. Why that is the case, I may never truly know. I can shoot…