by Steve S. | Jan 7, 2021 | God's purpose
Living in purpose and living on purpose (living intentionally) is something practiced in the present moment. Far too much of our attention is spent in the past or in the future. 100% of our actions, however, are practiced in the present moment. Traveling through a...
by Steve S. | Nov 26, 2014 | Site News
“Begin with the end in mind” – That’s another one of Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. I didn’t want to steal Covey’s “habit” for my title, but it’s a pretty good fit, so we’ll...
by Steve S. | Jun 25, 2010 | Site News
The late management guru Stephen Covey said that being “proactive” is the first of seven habits of highly effective people. According to Covey’s amazingly popular book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (of course), being proactive...
by Steve S. | Jun 11, 2010 | Site News, success
For the last two weeks I’ve been promising you twelve keys to a truly successful life; but all I’ve shared with you are two commandments from the Bible. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.†and “Love...
by Steve S. | May 31, 2010 | love, Site News, success
Last week I gave you the number one rule for a truly successful life: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.†Here’s rule number two: “Love your neighbor as yourself.†It’s an old one. I bet you’ve...
by Steve S. | May 21, 2010 | agape, love, Site News, success
Remember the movie “City Slickers� Three guys facing middle age and accompanying crises, wanting to reassess their lives, embark on a two week cattle drive – a sort of hyper-dude-ranch, real cowboy experience for ‘city slickers’. During the drive, one city...
by Steve S. | May 13, 2010 | God's purpose, success
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart …†(Jeremiah 1:5) I missed sending out a ‘Purpose Weekly’ letter last week. Elaine and I went away for four days so I could write … ironic, isn’t it? There’s a book...
by Steve S. | Apr 26, 2010 | Justice, love
“What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches†(Luke 13:18) Elaine and I are going on a little...
by Steve S. | Apr 13, 2010 | God's purpose, Heaven, suffering, Thriving in Tough Times
Last week I told you about my friend Roger and that Roger’s son, Eric, died as child, unexpectedly. That was twenty-five years ago; Roger hasn’t ‘gotten over it’ but he has learned to live with it. The promise that has allowed him to come to...
by Steve S. | Apr 7, 2010 | faith, Heaven, suffering
I like to think I’m pretty good with words, but a few times in my life I’ve been speechless. At those moments anything I could have thought to say would have been less than required. Words of advice or comfort or empathy would have been wooden and...
by Steve S. | Mar 28, 2010 | Site News
I hadn’t heard from Wes Smith in a while. Remember Wes? I wrote about him and his Haiti rescue team deploying do the earthquake ravaged island right after the tragic event. You can review the posts here: “Haiti Relief, January 17” and “Haiti...
by Steve S. | Mar 18, 2010 | Obedience, Site News, success
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.†Matthew 11:28-30...
by Steve S. | Feb 24, 2010 | Site News
“See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine...
by Steve S. | Feb 15, 2010 | faith, God's purpose, Israel, Site News, Trust
“The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud.†(G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy) I’ve been to Israel a half dozen times in the last few years. You’d think it would get old after so many visits … it doesn’t. There’s something about...
by Steve S. | Jan 26, 2010 | Site News
“I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.†(2 Corinthians 6:2) I remember watching a movie as a boy; “The Time Machineâ€. The movie, I later discovered, was loosely based on the H.G Wells book of the same name. The movie...
by Steve S. | Jan 18, 2010 | Site News
Wes Smith (who I wrote about yesterday) Filed an update last night and today. They’re on the ground and working! I wish the big guys could move as fast. Please, please, please, keep Wes’s team in your prayers. Here’s the update: January 18 update:...
by Steve S. | Jan 17, 2010 | Site News
On Tuesday January 12, at 4:53 PM local time a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, its epicenter 15 miles west-southwest of the city, struck Port-Au-Prince Haiti. By now you you know that. On Saturday Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, Haiti’s interior minister told Reuters....
by Steve S. | Jan 4, 2010 | Site News
“Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand …†Jeremiah 18:6 I’ve been reading in Jeremiah for the last few weeks – boy is it a tough book. A lot of folks avoid Jeremiah; they think it’s too difficult to understand, too depressing and too...
by Steve S. | Dec 18, 2009 | Site News
By O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of...
by Steve S. | Dec 1, 2009 | purpose, Site News, success, Thriving in Tough Times
“The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.†(1 Corinthians 2:14) At True Potential Publishing, we’ve been...
