Ep.915: What Does Courage Look Like?
How courage works and how it can work for us
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Theme Scripture: Joshua 1:9
Courage. It is an attribute we all can envision somehow or other. Courage is digging deep within to do what others won’t. It is acting in spite of fear, it is standing up when no one else will, it is joining with others against the odds, it is facing an enemy when you are overmatched. Courage is being, doing, seeing and thinking beyond what you thought possible – it is strength personified, perseverance in action and focus revealed. Courage changes things. So, can you develop courage? Can you actually make yourself more likely to be courageous?
How would you describe courage? To me, courage is digging deep within to do what others won’t – it is acting in spite of fear, it is standing up when no one else will, it is joining with others against the odds, it is being overmatched and still facing your enemy. Courage is being, doing, seeing and thinking beyond what you thought possible – it is strength personified, perseverance in action and focus revealed. Courage changes things. Dramatically. The problem with courage is that it is an attribute that seems to be waning in our present day. Rather than digging deep to find the strength to answer calls to courage we now just barely scratch the surface of character as we settle in and answer calls to conformity. How can we change this?
One way to rekindle the call to courage is to look back in time and find someone who was faced with a serious dilemma and see what they did to gather themselves, focus and plow through the problem. For us this search is easy, for the Bible is full of examples of courage. Think of Noah, or Moses, or Elijah or Daniel. All of them are heroes of faith and all of them are heroes of courage. For the sake of today’s conversation, we will consider another – we will look to Joshua.
Joshua’s call to courage was different than the others because he was called upon to take the place of the great deliverer Moses. Moses had died before he could lead Israel into their Promised Land so God laid the mantle of leadership upon the shoulders of Joshua. Talk about an impossible task – how could anyone have ever taken the place of Moses?
God knew how daunting this would be, so in the book of Joshua the first chapter, God explained what he needed from Joshua as his new leader. The great thing is that as God walked Joshua through the steps to becoming a courageous leader, he was also teaching us how to make courage an integral part of our daily lives.
God told Joshua three times to be strong and courageous within the first nine verses of chapter one. He was delivering a very specific message – that is that strength is a necessary basis for true enduring courage. Without internal strength of character as a foundation, courage cannot survive long term, because courage needs to be fed by strength. It is on this basis that the five principles used to develop courage are built.
Listen in to our April 24, 2016 broadcast “What Does Courage Look Like?” and watch how those five principles of courage are related by God to Joshua. Then, listen to how those five principles of courage can change your own thinking, perspective and even change your life!
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Ep.914: Will My Regrets Ever Leave Me Alone? (Part II)
Part II: Regret as a tool of progress and not a destination of despair
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Theme Scripture: Acts 22:19
Regret stinks. And it stinks for so many reasons. Think about it - you do something and the result for whatever reason is just not good, so you end up deeply regretting that action. Now, it’s not enough to just look back over what happened and feel that twinge of pain just once - no, of course not. Because you have a deep regret, you get to play that experience over and over again in your mind. You get to feel the pain, experience the guilt and relive those messy choices, sometimes multiple times in one day! And guess what happens the next day and the next day and the next? See, regret stinks!
We are here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be this way. Really. What you need to do is to understand and apply few things and by so doing you can take your nasty and destructive regrets and actually transform them into practical tools to navigate your present and set up your future. Once you know the “what” and the “how” of the fix, all that will be left are the daily choices to apply the fix.
We walked through this whole thing in our two-part series “Will My Regrets Ever Leave Me Alone?” from April 10th and 17th, 2016. In these two broadcasts, we discovered some amazing and life-changing biblical principles that squarely focus on dealing with our regrets. These principles are revealed by the Apostle Paul, who was previously known as Saul of Tarsus and as anti-Christian as one could be before being converted by Jesus himself. The regret that Saul, now Paul, would have had to deal with was enormous, for he had persecuted, imprisoned and even sanctioned the murder of the very Christians he would spend the rest of his life serving. Jesus knows this and talks Paul through the process of managing his regrets so he would be able to focus on the critical work of spreading the Gospel instead of constantly reminding himself of how bad his past was.
It turns out there are five basic step-by-step principles that Jesus taught Paul to manage regret. Like any series of steps, the first few are really foundational and need to be securely in place before the rest can be applied. Accept and embrace the pain of your actions and assume responsibility are the first two steps we begin with to manage our regrets. Oftentimes we do these steps naturally, but the BIG problem is that we stop there and don’t apply the next three steps of transformation. Again, don’t stop there as it is hazardous to your well being!
Please check out “Will My Regrets Ever Leave Me Alone?” parts 1 and 2 from April 10th and 17th. Life can change if you know how to change it and these five principles just might help!
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Theme Scripture: Daniel 12:4
Daniel was a prophet in the Bible who lived many many years before Jesus and he was given glimpses into the future that were extraordinary. The odd thing about his future glimpses was that he was told that he would not understand them and to “seal them up in the book until the time of the end”. This would have been a bummer for Daniel, but not so much for us because we happen to live right at the time when the mystery surrounding his mysterious prophecies can be unraveled.
In our April 10, 2016 program “Did the Prophet Daniel See the Future?” we had a special guest with us as we embarked on the unraveling process. Now, because there is SO much by way of future glimpses in the book of Daniel, we chose to focus on just a few very powerful lines of prophecy from Daniel the 12th chapter. The first several verses of this chapter laid out several profound things:
- Standing up for the children of God’s people/ Israel
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Some of the basic principles of understanding these things are as follows – The time of the end is a long time – hundreds of years. Once you figure out when the time of the end starts you begin to see that housed within that long time frame are the many other details mentioned above. While this might sound complicated it is far more amazing than complex.
We spent about half of the program looking at the unmistakable proofs that this prophecy really does unfold and apply in our very day. Did I say that these proofs were unmistakable? Did I mention that these prophecies were amazing? I meant every word! Please, take some time and listen, then tell us what you think!
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