July 30th, 2010 by Bryan Entzminger View Comments » 
Are you satisfied with your life? Is it all that you want it to be? Do you think it’s all that God would have it to be? Is your life smaller than your ability to live it?
Do you find areas in your life where your focus has been off or where you’ve known what to do but just haven’t been consistent? Have you decided you want to bless others by sharing your life in person? Have you only been giving 50% at work? Are you living an ineffective life without passion?
Have You Been Challenged?
I’m hoping that my recent posts have challenged you. I know they’ve challenged me. And if they haven’t challenged you, I’d challenge you to go ahead and challenge me (that just sounds funny, doesn’t it). I’d appreciate it.
If You’re Not Satisfied
So, let’s assume for a moment that we’re not satisfied with our lives. That God has more for us than we’re living and that we want to step into what God has for us. What should we do?
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July 28th, 2010 by Bryan Entzminger View Comments » 
I’m sure that you want to have a great life – I know I do. But do you have a plan for an effective, victorious life of God’s very best?
It’s OK to have a plan – a strategy, if you will. It’s even right to have a strategy. But I think most people misunderstand strategy. Football players understand strategy and so do generals in the army.
Do the rest of us understand strategy?
What Isn’t a Strategy?
A shortcut isn’t a strategy. We think it’s a strategy because we’ve misunderstood what strategy is. And most often, what we’re looking for is a shortcut – an inside track to success – rather than a strategy.
A quick Google search yields a number of people willing to sell you their social media “strategies” for success. A similar search will find you any number of “secrets” that will make your life amazing, fulfilled, and all-together unbelievable. We look for these magic pills to fix our marriages and make ourselves look slimmer without diets or working out.
Can you believe that we buy into that stuff?!
Maybe not all of it, but some of it. And why?
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July 27th, 2010 by Bryan Entzminger View Comments » I was thinking about this the other day. I hear people talk about those who have died as though their lives were taken from them. I think sometimes people are even mad at God for “taking” a life.
But I wonder, can God take my life? Does God take our lives?
We’ve Already Lost our Lives
It seems to me that we traded away our lives when we entered into sin through Adam and Eve. That our lives were taken from us in a bad trade. That what we have because of sin isn’t really life.
Unless we give our lives to God. Unless we trade our banal, death-bound non-life and trade it for the amazing life that we have in Jesus. And if we have already given God our lives, can they really be taken from us?
What do you think?
Can our lives really be taken from us?
Can your life be taken from you?
July 26th, 2010 by Bryan Entzminger View Comments » 
Sometimes I learn about God and about a life of faith in the most unexpected places. Often in the most mundane places. I find that so often God speaks to me in the boring parts of a glorious life. I guess it’s no wonder that Jesus commanded us to “consider the lilies,” (Luke 12:27), is it?
Just a couple days ago, God spoke to me in a mundane part of my life. I was at home and getting ready to go upstairs to get something (I don’t remember what that was any more). As I got up and headed towards the stairs, Mischief – one of our cats – decided to race me.
But Mischief didn’t know where I was headed. He headed out at top speed, knowing that he would win the race to the downstairs bathroom. And, of course, he did win – sort of. Except that I didn’t race him.
I Didn’t Get Sucked into His Race
I knew where I was headed and just kept going to my destination. I let him win his little race with no competition. After all, winning that race was of no value to me. I had no need to win a race to a place I wasn’t headed.
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