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# Heartstone Journey

Live courageously from your heart!

## Posts

- [Blog](https://heartstonejourney.com/blog/) - Life is not a snapshot, so why do we live it that way? It takes courage to live from your heart!
- [My Tools [Series]](https://heartstonejourney.com/my-tools-series/) - I am often asked about the tools I use in my personal and professional life.
- [How Poetry Can Reveal The Masculine Heart](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-poetry-can-reveal-the-masculine-heart/) - Don't waste your creative gifts. Stop with all the excuses and start making stuff for the glory of God!
- [Have We Lost Our Moral Compass?](https://heartstonejourney.com/have-we-lost-our-moral-compass/) - Daniel Darling shares, "Our society's view of right and wrong is not based on something absolute anymore."
- [Why I Chose An Android Tablet Over An iPad](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-i-chose-an-android-tablet-over-an-ipad/) - I finally made the decision to go with the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T. It is an amazing tablet!
- [Life is a Journey](https://heartstonejourney.com/life-is-a-journey/) - Failures keep you humble, success keeps you hopeful, but your dreams keep you going
- [Face Lift: New Design For 2016!](https://heartstonejourney.com/face-lift-new-design-for-2016/) - Believe in what you do, do what matters, and do it with love.
- [3 Things I Did For Better Quality Of Life](https://heartstonejourney.com/3-things-i-did-for-better-quality-of-life/) - If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.
- [Do Dads Matter?](https://heartstonejourney.com/do-dads-matter/) - As dads, we can have a significant impact on children by giving them the love, encouragement, and support they need to fulfill their potential.
- [My Daily Reading List](https://heartstonejourney.com/my-daily-reading-list/) - Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers! What are you currently reading?
- [How A Stump Can Man You Up](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-a-stump-can-man-you-up/) - Difficulties are God’s errands and trainers, and only through them can one come to fullness of manhood.
- [Can't Change Your Thinking? 2 Ways We Can Learn How From RoboCop](https://heartstonejourney.com/cant-change-your-thinking-2-ways-we-can-learn-how-from-robocop/) - I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions -Stephen Covey
- [#004: How to Live Courageously From The Heart [Podcast]](https://heartstonejourney.com/004-how-to-live-courageously-from-the-heart-podcast/) - My life, with all its mess, with all my baggage and failures is welcome.
- [How A Quadriplegic Taught Me How To Run!](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-a-quadriplegic-taught-me-how-to-run/) - Dad, when I’m running with You, it feels like I’m not handicapped.
- [What God Is Not Doing](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-god-is-not-doing/) - Maybe your having a head on collision with life right now and you've been asking God to intervene.
- [Stop Focusing On The Finish Line And Run The Race](https://heartstonejourney.com/stop-focusing-on-the-finish-line-and-run-the-race/) - The temptation to quit will become greatest just before you are about to succeed
- [Stepping Out Of The Boat](https://heartstonejourney.com/stepping-out-of-the-boat/) - Step out on faith and walk into your purpose.
- [Why The Enemy Has Your Affirmation In The Crosshairs](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-the-enemy-has-your-affirmation-in-the-crosshairs/) - God gives us access to the battle plans, and we can learn how stay out of the crosshairs and walk a victorious life.
- [What Most Millionaires and the Apostle Paul Have in Common](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-most-millionaires-and-the-apostle-paul-have-in-common/) - I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation!
- [Quit Looking Behind You, You're Not Heading That Way!](https://heartstonejourney.com/quit-looking-behind-you-youre-not-heading-that-way/) - You are not held captive by any force other than your own choice to stay under the influence of your past, your bad decisions, the evil one, and your fear of the unknown
- [Alert: Your Personal Brand Is Not Self-Promotion!](https://heartstonejourney.com/alert-your-personal-brand-is-not-self-promotion/) - A personal brand is the total experience of someone having a relationship with who you are and what you represent as an individual; as a leader.
- [Jesus, Since I Met You](https://heartstonejourney.com/jesus-since-i-met-you/) - More lovely is the sound. Of the birds in song, Since I met You, Since to You I belong.
- [Approved](https://heartstonejourney.com/approved/) - Mark Twain shares that a man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- [A New Beginning](https://heartstonejourney.com/a-new-beginning/) - He can take that coldhearted child; give them a brand new heart. Give them direction, purpose and a new start.
- [Social Media Tool That Will Save You Time](https://heartstonejourney.com/social-media-tool-that-will-save-you-time/) - Buffer is one of those tools that once you've discovered it you'll slap yourself on the forehead and say, “Wish I found this sooner!”
- [7 Habits To Help You Man Up](https://heartstonejourney.com/7-habits-to-help-you-man-up/) - A woman simply is, but a man must become!
- [Looking Back At 2015](https://heartstonejourney.com/looking-back-at-2015/) - Everything we do impacts the world around us and everything we do in life echoes in eternity!
- [3 Universal Desires Of Men Revealed by King Arthur](https://heartstonejourney.com/3-universal-desires-of-men-revealed-by-king-arthur/) - If this be our destiny, then so be it. But let history remember, that as free men, we chose to make it so!
- [Daddy, Carry Me!](https://heartstonejourney.com/daddy-carry-me/) - I’m running to Your arms, I’m running to Your arms. The riches of Your love will always be enough. Nothing compares to Your embrace!
- [Do You Have The Courage To Stand?](https://heartstonejourney.com/do-you-have-the-courage-to-stand/) - If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
- [7 Ways I've Learned To Manage Fear](https://heartstonejourney.com/7-ways-ive-learned-to-manage-fear/) - Stress, difficulties, disappointments, accidents, disease, misfortune, cruelty, betrayal – they’re unavoidable in this life.
- [What Redlining And The Sabbath Can Teach Us About Faith](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-redlining-and-the-sabbath-can-teach-us-about-faith/) - Andy Stanley defines Breathing room as the space between our current pace and our limits.
- [Have You Lost Sight of Jesus?](https://heartstonejourney.com/have-you-lost-sight-of-jesus/) - This is the easiest thing to do at Christmas. We are so busy celebrating the birth of Christ that we can forget about Christ.
- [We Walk As Lions](https://heartstonejourney.com/we-walk-as-lions/) - The righteous are bold as a lion!
- [What Can The Guards At Tomb Of The Unknowns Teach Us?](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-can-the-guards-at-tomb-of-the-unknowns-teach-us/) - To be especially watchful at night and during the time for challenging, to challenge all persons on or near my post, and to allow no one to pass without proper authority.
- [Warning: Striving Is A Cultural Lie!](https://heartstonejourney.com/warning-striving-is-a-cultural-lie/) - The secret to Jesus' life and ministry was the rest He found in His Father's love.
- [Remember The Fallen](https://heartstonejourney.com/remember-the-fallen/) - I will pray for the fallen who fought for this country! I am grateful for their sacrifice and grateful for our freedom.
- [Will You Walk The Ancient Paths?](https://heartstonejourney.com/will-you-walk-the-ancient-paths/) - Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is and walk in it. And you will find rest for your souls.
- [4 Characteristics Of Authentic Manhood](https://heartstonejourney.com/4-characteristics-of-authentic-manhood/) - We are in our third week of week of the Stepping Up series with our church men's group. Today we journeyed through defining what is authentic manhood? Defining authentic manhood is tough, because we don't see it much in our modern progressive culture. In today’s world view the very idea of manhood has been emasculated
- [Looking Back At 2014](https://heartstonejourney.com/looking-back-at-2014/) - Words of wisdom and encouragement from Louis Zamperini, "If I can take it, I can make it."
- [Why Waldo And Bigfoot Are Better At Hide-N-Seek Than God](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-waldo-and-bigfoot-are-better-at-hide-n-seek-than-god/) - Life's not easy. Don't try and make it that way. It's not fair, it never was, it isn't now, it won't ever be.
- [Why The Shipwrecked Preserve The Meaning Of Christmas](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-the-shipwrecked-preserve-the-meaning-of-christmas/) - Christmas is under attack, so preserve the meaning of Christmas!
- [The Minimalist Guide To The Simple Life](https://heartstonejourney.com/the-minimalist-guide-to-the-simple-life/) - This path leads to envy, jealousy and a complete lack of contentment in life. We miss living in the moment and end up missing out on the simple life.
- [Building The Bridge As We Walk On It](https://heartstonejourney.com/building-the-bridge-as-we-walk-on-it/) - However, we’d felt something was really broken with church as we knew it and more and more people were disillusioned with church.
- [My Thoughts On Our Divided Nation](https://heartstonejourney.com/my-thoughts-on-our-divided-nation/) - Every line someone draws to divide, erase it to unite!
- [Authentic Men Are Warriors Who Protect, Not Rape!](https://heartstonejourney.com/authentic-men-are-warriors-who-protect-not-rape/) - All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
- [20 Quotes To Renew Your Patriotism](https://heartstonejourney.com/20-quotes-to-renew-your-patriotism/) - Freedom is never free!
- [5 Reasons Why I Broke Up With Google Reader And Now Using Feedly](https://heartstonejourney.com/5-reasons-why-i-broke-up-with-google-reader-and-now-using-feedly/) - Google surprised many of us with the news that they would be shutting down Google Reader
- [What A Leper And Centurion Can Teach Us About Compassion](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-a-leper-and-centurion-can-teach-us-about-compassion/) - For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
- [It's Not About Religion...It's About Relationship](https://heartstonejourney.com/its-not-about-religion-its-about-relationship/) - Jesus consistently prioritized people over religion, customs, and traditions.
- [Why The Easiest Person To Deceive Is Yourself](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-the-easiest-person-to-deceive-is-yourself/) - Can you remember a time in your life when you acted impulsively and later came to regret it? Maybe you impulsively ran out and bought a new car after being convinced from a TV commercial that it was exactly what you needed and soon regretted that decision because you really couldn’t make the payments. Maybe
- [#011: Excellence In Fatherhood [Podcast]](https://heartstonejourney.com/011-excellence-in-fatherhood-podcast/) - We were not created to just survive, we were created to live courageously from our hearts!
- [#012: Hope For The Broken-Hearted [Podcast]](https://heartstonejourney.com/012-hope-for-the-broken-hearted-podcast/) - We need to live courageously from our hearts and we have to become greater than what we suffer.
- [How To Become A Navy Seal Without Joining The Military](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-to-become-a-navy-seal-without-joining-the-military/) - I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.
- [5 Things About Forgiveness You Need To Know](https://heartstonejourney.com/forgiveness/) - Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea until they have something to forgive.
- [God Is Calling You Out Of Your Hiding Place!](https://heartstonejourney.com/god-is-calling-you-out-of-your-hiding-place/) - The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
- [Life Hit's Hard!](https://heartstonejourney.com/life-hits-hard/) - You know the difference between winners and losers is winners just refuse to quit!
- [Live Life Without The Fear Of Death In Your Heart](https://heartstonejourney.com/live-life-without-the-fear-of-death-in-your-heart/) - A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong!
- [#003: What I Learned From Life's Struggles [Podcast]](https://heartstonejourney.com/003-what-i-learned-from-lifes-struggles-podcast/) - In this episode Steve Bremner and I walk through places in my book Heartstone and I share some things I learned from life’s struggles.
- [#007: What "Cats In The Cradle" Can Teach Us About Being A Dad [Podcast]](https://heartstonejourney.com/007-what-cats-in-the-cradle-can-teach-us-about-being-a-dad-podcast/) - The world shouts at us men through a megaphone that we find our identity in our careers and our stuff. This is a lie!
- [#002: Have You Ever Felt The Blunt Force Trauma of Life? [Podcast]](https://heartstonejourney.com/002-have-you-ever-felt-the-blunt-force-trauma-of-life-podcast/) - In this episode, I talk about the blunt force trauma of life and recovering through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
- [#001: Alive In Christ Radio Interview [Podcast]](https://heartstonejourney.com/alive-in-christ-radio-interview-podcast/) - In this episode, I talk about life not having to be an expression of your darkest moments. When our story is interwoven with God's, it becomes a story of hope.
- [The Best of 2013](https://heartstonejourney.com/the-best-of-2013/) - Here are the top three best Heartstone Journey posts by category for 2013. It is always pretty cool to see which posts resonated with people the most.
- [Are You A Cultural Christian Or A Biblical Christian?](https://heartstonejourney.com/are-you-a-cultural-christian-or-a-biblical-christian/) - Our culture will tell us what to believe if we don't know what we believe!
- [There's Only One Way To Face Life, And Here It Is…](https://heartstonejourney.com/theres-only-one-way-to-face-life-and-here-it-is/) - You only lose if you’re afraid to live!
- [11 Essential Ingredients Every Blog Post Needs](https://heartstonejourney.com/11-essential-ingredients-every-blog-post-needs/) - Demian Farnworth of Copyblogger challenges us with this, "So. You think you've got yourself a good blog post."
- [Social Media Timeline](https://heartstonejourney.com/social-media-timeline/) - Where would you place yourself on the timeline? At what point did you jump in and start the internet?
- [31 Specific Prayers for Your Children](https://heartstonejourney.com/31-specific-prayers-for-your-children/) - Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.
- [#010: Worry Free Living [Podcast]](https://heartstonejourney.com/010-worry-free-living-podcast/) - Worry weighs a person down; an encouraging word cheers a person up.
- [3 Feelings That Hold Men Back From Taking Initiative](https://heartstonejourney.com/3-feelings-that-hold-men-back-from-taking-initiative/) - God created men to take initiative, so men its time to wake up and take initiative!
- [Why Choosing Life Is Braver Than Ending It!](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-choosing-life-is-braver-than-ending-it/) - It is brave to fight, to live, to keep going down our road until there is no more road left. That is brave.
- [There's A Little Lady Gaga In All Of Us!](https://heartstonejourney.com/theres-a-little-lady-gaga-in-all-of-us/) - There's a little Lady Gaga in all of us! Why, because we all crave "the applause", don't we?
- [3 Self Imposed Obstacles To Starting Over](https://heartstonejourney.com/3-self-imposed-obstacles-to-starting-over/) - Life is not about comfort. It’s about saying “God gave me another mountain."
- [What Our Daughters Need To Know About The Women's March](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-our-daughters-need-to-know-about-the-womens-march/) - Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
- [Walking In Grief — Year 1](https://heartstonejourney.com/walking-in-grief-year-1/) - A father shares his family's journey of losing a loved one through the battle of cancer.
- [Hey Dads, Get Your Head Out Of Your @$$ And Listen Up! [Series]](https://heartstonejourney.com/hey-dads-get-your-head-out-of-your-and-listen-up/) - My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
- [Answering The Question, "Where Have All The Men Gone?" [Series]](https://heartstonejourney.com/answering-the-question-where-have-all-the-men-gone/) - Men, we were not created to just survive, we were created to live courageously from our hearts!
- [What The Chicago Bulls Can Teach Us About Pride](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-the-chicago-bulls-can-teach-us-about-pride/) - It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- [Every Young Woman's Battle](https://heartstonejourney.com/every-young-womans-battle/) - Take the time to have the conversation about sex with your kids and don't let someone else be that voice!
- [How To Become A Man Of Steel](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-to-become-a-man-of-steel/) - The most endangered species in America is not the Spotted Owl or the Snail Darter, but the responsible Father.
- [Be An Avenger Dad](https://heartstonejourney.com/be-an-avenger-dad/) - Frederick Douglas shares that it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
- [You Have To Go There!](https://heartstonejourney.com/you-have-to-go-there/) - The reason that we doubt the happy ending is found in the story of our own lives. It is rooted in our own disappointments, setbacks and heartbreaks.
- [Armor Up](https://heartstonejourney.com/armor-up/) - Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
- [Why Christmas Isn't About Peace](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-christmas-isnt-about-peace/) - Jesus Christ came to "bring...a sword" through every kind of peace that is not based on a personal relationship with Himself.
- [How Ice Fishing Exposed The Need For More Margin In My Life](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-ice-fishing-exposed-the-need-for-more-margin-in-my-life/) - As quoted by Richard Swenson, Margin is the space that once existed between ourselves and our limits.
- [Men, It's Time To Take A Stand Against Pornography!](https://heartstonejourney.com/men-its-time-to-take-a-stand-against-pornography/) - Men, it's time to counterattack the enemy’s assault with an effective battle plan and strategy to fight against pornography!
- [Looking Back At 2016](https://heartstonejourney.com/looking-back-at-2016/) - If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses?
- [A Reflection in Time](https://heartstonejourney.com/a-reflection-in-time/) - A father shares his family's journey of losing a loved one through the battle of cancer.
- [Moms, You're Holding On Too Tight!](https://heartstonejourney.com/moms-youre-holding-on-too-tight/) - There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.
- [How To Find Strength In Our Brokenness](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-to-find-strength-in-our-brokenness/) - We all face and struggle with brokenness on our journey — because we are all broken and much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for some sort of relief. When I was writing Heartstone, one of the most difficult chapters to write was telling the story
- [Why Your Testimony Has Tremendous Power](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-your-testimony-has-tremendous-power/) - And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony!
- [Dealing With 'Being A Coward' Once And For All](https://heartstonejourney.com/dealing-with-being-a-coward-once-and-for-all/) - The Glory of God is a man fully alive.
- [The 15 Principles Of Manhood](https://heartstonejourney.com/the-15-priciples-of-manhood/) - Males are born while men are forged!
- [Confessions Of An Imposter](https://heartstonejourney.com/imposter/) - Brennan Manning shares, that our deepest awareness of self is that we are deeply loved by Jesus Christ and have done nothing to earn it or deserve it
- [What Guardians Of The Galaxy Can Teach Us About Fatherhood](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-guardians-of-the-galaxy-can-teach-us-about-fatherhood/) - Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad!
- [Are You Ready To Pick Yourself?](https://heartstonejourney.com/are-you-ready-to-pick-yourself/) - We all want to get picked for something, it's in our DNA to be accepted. Right?
- [Do You Know Him?](https://heartstonejourney.com/do-you-know-him/) - If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- [Why God's Math Just Doesn't Add Up](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-gods-math-just-doesnt-add-up/) - I couldn’t wrap myself around the idea that loosing everything was somehow adding value to my life.
- [What Willy Wonka Can Teach Us About God's Promises](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-willy-wonka-can-teach-us-about-gods-promises/) - I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
- [Why Our Next President Won't Be The Hope We're Looking For!](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-our-next-president-wont-be-the-hope-were-looking-for/) - The next President will not be the hope we are looking for!
- [1 Major Thing You Didn't Know About Success](https://heartstonejourney.com/1-major-thing-you-didnt-know-about-success/) - Failure will leave you for dead but success will bury you alive.
- [How To Hit The Target — All The Time!](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-to-hit-the-target-all-the-time/) - Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
- [Courage Robbers: The Top 10 Things Men Fear Most](https://heartstonejourney.com/courage-robbers-the-top-10-things-men-fear-most/) - Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
- [What We Know About Leadership Is All Wrong...And Here's Why](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-we-know-about-leadership-is-all-wrong-and-heres-why/) - Leadership is about being a servant first.
- [Why Planning And Providing Are So Important](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-planning-and-providing-are-so-important/) - A boy without a compass is like an explorer without a map!
- [How Picking Up Stones Changed My Life](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-picking-up-stones-changed-my-life/) - Listen for GOD’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track.
- [Why Self-Promotion Disqualifies You](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-self-promotion-disqualifies-you/) - Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.
- [Why Adversity Can Distress Or Bless](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-adversity-can-distress-or-bless/) - There is no University for a Christian like that of sorrow and trial.
- [#008: How To Build Margin Into Your Life [Podcast]](https://heartstonejourney.com/008-how-to-build-margin-into-your-life-podcast/) - We have exceeded so many of our limits in life!
- [#006: New Years Challenge: Are You Living A Life On Purpose Everywhere You Go?  [Podcast]](https://heartstonejourney.com/006-new-years-challenge-are-you-living-a-life-on-purpose-everywhere-you-go-podcast/) - I challenge you to start living life on purpose, everywhere you go!
- [#005: Shame strips you of your life's message! [Podcast]](https://heartstonejourney.com/005-shame-strips-you-of-your-lifes-message-podcast/) - Finding the courage to come out of hiding is the very step we need to take to begin to truly discover who we are!
- [Why We Need More Sheepdogs And Less Hashtags!](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-we-need-more-sheepdogs-and-less-hashtags/) - Courage is not the absence of fear; courage is the absence of self!
- [3 Reasons "The Magnificent Seven" Is Magnificent](https://heartstonejourney.com/3-reasons-the-magnificent-seven-is-magnificent/) - These guys are gunslingers, and when they walk into the room, you notice them. These are people you want to be with, or you want to protect you.
- [13 Hours: A Story Of Bravery Against All Odds](https://heartstonejourney.com/13-hours-a-story-of-bravery-against-all-odds/) - When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.
- [It’s True, God Does Care About The Details Of Our Lives](https://heartstonejourney.com/its-true-god-does-care-about-the-details-of-our-lives/) - That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.
- [10 Life Lessons From Hacksaw Ridge](https://heartstonejourney.com/10-life-lessons-from-hacksaw-ridge/) - Please Lord, help me get one more. Help me get one more!
- [Quotes To Kick Your Masculinity Into Gear](https://heartstonejourney.com/quotes-to-kick-your-masculinity-into-gear/) - Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
- [8 Tips On "How To Dad" From A Cheerios Commercial](https://heartstonejourney.com/8-tips-on-how-to-dad-from-a-cheerios-commercial/) - Dads are awesome and it’s awesome to be a dad!
- [How Becoming A Grandfather Gave Me A "Do Over"](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-becoming-a-grandfather-gave-me-a-do-over/) - Don’t fear all your life failures, fear spending the rest of your life succeeding at what doesn’t matter in the end.
- [Why The Resurrection Offers Hope For A Brighter Tomorrow](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-the-resurrection-offers-hope-for-a-brighter-tomorrow/) - May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- [7 Things We Can Learn From Joseph When Our Life Sucks](https://heartstonejourney.com/7-things-we-can-learn-from-joseph-when-our-life-sucks/) - The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.
- [Why Leadership Was The Game Changer In Super Bowl LI](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-leadership-was-the-game-changer-in-super-bowl-li/) - Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- [Men, Stop Wasting Time And Find Your Courage!](https://heartstonejourney.com/men-stop-wasting-time-and-find-your-courage/) - ...as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts
- [How Four Stones Taught Me To Live In The Moment](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-four-stones-taught-me-to-live-in-the-moment/) - Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here
- [Why The Remake Of Ben-Hur Is About Forgiveness, Not Chariots!](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-the-remake-of-ben-hur-is-about-forgiveness-not-chariots/) - It’s Jesus that’s kept you alive, Judah. Jesus showed you kindness when no one else would.
- [#009: How To Live With Strength And Courage [Podcast]](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-to-live-with-strength-and-courage/) - John Eldredge shares that courage, perseverance, cunning - that's how you kill lions. Live that and you will have a story worth telling.
- [Why We Shouldn't Interpret God's Silence As His Absence](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-we-shouldnt-interpret-gods-silence-as-his-absence/) - We need to stop connecting our tough circumstances to how much God doesn't love us or lack of His presence.
- [The Great Career Hoax!](https://heartstonejourney.com/the-great-career-hoax/) - Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.
- [Is Going To Church Absolutely Necessary?](https://heartstonejourney.com/is-going-to-church-absolutely-necessary/) - Jesus did not say the whole world should go to Church, but He did say that the Church should go to the whole world
- [Why Mentorship Is A Solution To A Fatherless Generation](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-mentorship-is-a-solution-to-a-fatherless-generation/) - Successful people don't reach their goals alone!
- [Worship In The Midst Of A Secular Culture](https://heartstonejourney.com/worship-in-the-midst-of-a-secular-culture/) - If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
- [3 Super Bowl Ads That Challenged Today's Culture](https://heartstonejourney.com/patriots-werent-the-only-winners-of-super-bowl-49-dads-scored-big-too/) - Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad!
- [America Has Spoken, Now Let The Healing Begin!](https://heartstonejourney.com/america-has-spoken-now-let-the-healing-begin/) - United we stand, divided we fall!
- [How To Take Charge Of Your Life With Simple Math](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-to-take-charge-of-your-life-with-simple-math/) - Stop filling your life with unimportant stuff and stop letting others tell you how to live your life.
- [Where Is The Courage Of Patrick Henry Today?](https://heartstonejourney.com/where-is-the-courage-of-patrick-henry-today/) - Courage is the virtue that faces death for a good cause!
- [All Hands On Deck...Man Overboard!](https://heartstonejourney.com/all-hands-on-deck-man-overboard/) - But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
- [Why God Uses Symbols To Communicate To Us](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-god-uses-symbols-to-communicate-to-us/) - Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
- [Being A Dad Doesn't End After Divorce!](https://heartstonejourney.com/being-a-dad-doesnt-end-after-divorce/) - Prentice Powell shares his poem "Good Father"
- [How God Trains His Soldiers](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-god-trains-his-soldiers/) - I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have raised up a young man from among the people.
- [Why People Dislike "Christians" And How To Change That](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-people-dislike-christians-and-how-to-change-that/) - Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.
- [The Most Epic Quotes From Braveheart](https://heartstonejourney.com/the-most-epic-quotes-from-braveheart/) - Men don't follow titles, they follow courage.
- [Moving Forward...Together](https://heartstonejourney.com/moving-forward-together/) - Men are taught over and over when they are boys that a wound that hurts is shameful
- [Helpful Resources For Life's Journey](https://heartstonejourney.com/helpful-resources-for-lifes-journey/) - Everyone needs great resources and here are some that I use, recommend and some that may help you on your own life journey.
- [Is God A Crutch For The Weak?](https://heartstonejourney.com/is-god-a-crutch-for-the-weak/) - God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.
- [How I Organized My Life For Maximum Efficiency](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-i-organized-my-life-for-maximum-efficiency/) - I began to see the usefulness and productivity of this digital repository, that I started going more paperless and went premium with my Evernote subscription.
- [Chris Kyle](https://heartstonejourney.com/chris-kyle/) - There are three types of people in this world, sheep ,wolves and sheep dogs!
- [It's Not Time To Give Up, It's Time To Rise Up!](https://heartstonejourney.com/its-not-time-to-give-up-its-time-to-rise-up/) - F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.
- [Who Is Your Samwise?](https://heartstonejourney.com/who-is-your-samwise/) - We all need that someone to lean on, that someone who will stand beside us and walk it out with us no matter what!
- [26 Of The Best Business Books I've Read](https://heartstonejourney.com/26-of-the-best-business-books-ive-read/) - Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
- [Great Moments Are Born From Great Opportunity!](https://heartstonejourney.com/great-moments-are-born-from-great-opportunity/) - Great moments are born from great opportunities.
- [How To Navigate The Reality Of Life](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-to-navigate-the-reality-of-life/) - See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
- [Finally, A Commercial That Promotes Fatherhood](https://heartstonejourney.com/finally-a-commercial-that-promotes-fatherhood/) - To all the dads out there, this one's for you!
- [One Thing Social Media Got Right About The Decision On Gay Marriage, #LoveWins!](https://heartstonejourney.com/one-thing-social-media-got-right-about-the-decision-on-gay-marriage-lovewins/) - The day #LoveWon was when Jesus went to the cross for everyone, not when SCOTUS ruled on gay marriage!
- [A Letter From A Big Sister: 24 Truths About Men](https://heartstonejourney.com/a-letter-from-a-big-sister-24-truths-about-men/) - MALES V's MEN: 24 Truths
- [Why "Real Men" Are Romantics At Heart](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-real-men-are-romantics-at-heart/) - To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.
- [Why The Story Of Louie Zamperini Should Have Been Titled 'Broken'](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-the-story-of-louie-zamperini-should-have-been-titled-broken/) - A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.
- [Why It's Important For Guys To Act Like Men](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-its-important-for-guys-to-act-like-men/) - The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
- [Men Your Words Have Power, So Speak Life To Your Kids](https://heartstonejourney.com/men-your-words-have-power-so-speak-life-to-your-kids/) - Therefore encourage one another and build one another up.
- [How To Build Margin Into Your Life [Series]](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-to-build-margin-into-your-life-series/) - I have no peace! I have no quiet! I have no rest! And trouble keeps coming
- [The Four Stones](https://heartstonejourney.com/the-four-stones/) - Hope gives us strength to rest in our Father’s arms, where He completely consumes all of our worries of tomorrow.
- [Warning: Bible Thumping Is Hazardous To People's Health](https://heartstonejourney.com/warning-bible-thumping-is-hazardous-to-peoples-health/) - Some people are hurting so bad you have to do more than preach a message to them. You have to BE a message to them!
- [Why "Ready, Fire, Aim" is a losing proposition!](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-ready-fire-aim-is-a-losing-proposition/) - When we bring our situation to God first, we make way for Him to work on our behalf to orchestrate the best outcome.
- [Thank You God](https://heartstonejourney.com/thank-you-god/) - Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday because you spend time with family without the hustle and bustle of Christmas.
- [Because He Loves Us That Much!](https://heartstonejourney.com/because-he-loves-us-that-much/) - In matters of love you can't send someone else, you have to go yourself!
- [Man Up And Stop Blaming Everyone!](https://heartstonejourney.com/man-up-and-stop-blaming-everyone/) - You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.
- [3 Ways To Break Free Of The Homer Simpson Syndrome](https://heartstonejourney.com/3-ways-to-break-free-of-the-homer-simpson-syndrome/) - What are we telling young boys if the examples of fatherhood they see everyday are parodies of incompetence?
- [Why Waiting On God Is Frustrating And Transforming](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-waiting-on-god-is-frustrating-and-transforming/) - Be still, and know that I am God.
- [Almost All Women Stand By Their Men; Very Few Men Stand By Their Women](https://heartstonejourney.com/almost-all-women-stand-by-their-men-very-few-men-stand-by-their-women/) - Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
- [Do You Want To Get Well?](https://heartstonejourney.com/do-you-want-to-get-well/) - In the Gospel of John, we read that Jesus comes across a paralytic man who has been in this place of affliction for thirty-eight years
- [Why Does Egypt Always Look So Good In The Rear View Mirror?](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-does-egypt-always-look-so-good-in-the-rear-view-mirror/) - It didn’t take much time for God to get the Israelites out of Egypt, but it took years to get Egypt out of the Israelites
- [How To Break Free Of Who You're Not!](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-to-break-free-of-who-youre-not/) - Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
- [How God Uses The Wilderness To Shape Us](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-god-uses-the-wilderness-to-shape-us/) - When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path.
- [What Nails In A Fence Can Reveal About Anger [Series]](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-nails-in-a-fence-can-reveal-about-anger/) - A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
- [On The Other Side Of "Be Still, And Know That I Am God"](https://heartstonejourney.com/on-the-other-side-of-be-still-and-know-that-i-am-god/) - Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us!
- [God's Signposts Are Where The Destiny Trail Begins](https://heartstonejourney.com/gods-signposts-are-where-the-destiny-trail-begins/) - Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
- [Living Life Or Chasing The Wind. The Choice Is Yours!](https://heartstonejourney.com/living-life-or-chasing-the-wind-the-choice-is-yours/) - Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
- [The Shocking Truth About Our Deeper Issue](https://heartstonejourney.com/the-shocking-truth-about-our-deeper-issue/) - Wait a minute, what? Right next to this incredible tenderness, kindness, love and grace...in the next breath, Jesus says stop it!
- [What Are The Purposes Of Hardships In Our Lives](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-are-the-purposes-of-hardships-in-our-lives/) - The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.
- [You Won't Find God's Gift Under A Tree, In A Manger Or On A Cross](https://heartstonejourney.com/you-wont-find-gods-gift-under-a-tree-in-a-manger-or-on-a-cross/) - God initiated the renewal of all things through the power of resurrection. The gift of His only son, Jesus Christ!
- [Why It's Easier To Run Into The Headwinds With God When We Believe](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-its-easier-to-run-into-the-headwinds-with-god-when-we-believe/) - Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us!
- [10 Things I Learned From Divorce About Facing Life's Obstacles [Series]](https://heartstonejourney.com/10-things-i-learned-from-divorce-about-facing-lifes-obstacles-series/) - The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- [Every Step Away From The Lord Is A Step In The Wrong Direction](https://heartstonejourney.com/every-step-away-from-the-lord-is-a-step-in-the-wrong-direction/) - The core issue we all face is when the self becomes our god and we worship it.
- [Some Thanksgiving Thoughts for You](https://heartstonejourney.com/some-thanksgiving-thoughts-for-you/) - Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
- [3 Things I Learned From A Golfer](https://heartstonejourney.com/3-things-i-learned-from-a-golfer/) - What I learned from armature golfer Bobby Jones about life.
- [Would You Sing For Gas?](https://heartstonejourney.com/would-you-sing-for-gas/) - TV at a gas station begins talking to couple at pump and convinces them to sing on live TV for free gas.
- [Can One Person Make a Difference?](https://heartstonejourney.com/can-one-person-make-a-difference/) - There are many who say that one person can’t make a difference, that it’s impossible for an individual to have a major impact or start a trend or create a culture.
- [What Greatness Is Not!](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-greatness-is-not/) - Your greatness is not what you have, it's what you give
- [3 Essential Things To Remember When Stepping Into Your Destiny](https://heartstonejourney.com/3-essential-things-to-remember-when-stepping-into-your-destiny/) - A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
- [7 X 70 = Forgiveness](https://heartstonejourney.com/7-x-70-forgiveness/) - Forgiveness says, "It was wrong, it mattered, and I release you!"
- [What Team Shirts Can Teach Us About Our Faith In God!](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-team-shirts-can-teach-us-about-our-faith-in-god/) - Stop with the fear and identity complex. Put on your game shirt and bring humanity back to God!
- [Battle With Worship](https://heartstonejourney.com/battle-with-worship/) - Worship is an act of war against the enemy of our hearts!
- [Psalm 73 (My Version)](https://heartstonejourney.com/psalm-73-my-version/) - My heart may fail, but the Lord is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- [How I Collided With Destiny, In the Silence Of Life](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-i-collided-with-destiny-in-the-silence-of-life/) - Somehow we have become conditioned to never unplug!
- [How To Take Charge Of The Mediocrity In Your Life](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-to-take-charge-of-the-mediocrity-in-your-life/) - The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
- [Getting Rid Of Fear Once And For All](https://heartstonejourney.com/getting-rid-of-fear-once-and-for-all/) - Erwin McMannis reminds us that what ever we fear establishes the boundaries of our freedom.
- [What A Stump Can Teach Us About Pride](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-a-stump-can-teach-us-about-pride/) - The eyes of the arrogant man will be humbled and the pride of men brought low
- [Why Gender Reassignment And Altering Pronouns Won't Change Who Bruce Jenner Is](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-gender-reassignment-and-altering-pronouns-wont-change-who-bruce-jenner-is/) - God's hope isn't for Bruce Jenner to become a woman, but to become the man he was created to be.
- [Harold Thurman Whitman](https://heartstonejourney.com/harold-thurman-whitman/) - What makes your heart come alive?
- [Things End, But Memories Last Forever!](https://heartstonejourney.com/i-miss-you-mom/) - Its tough losing the ones we love, isn't it?
- [Why Is Integrity So Important?](https://heartstonejourney.com/integrity/) - Zig Ziglar nails it on Integrity. With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
- [Why Going The Extra Mile Is So Important!](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-going-the-extra-mile-is-so-important/) - So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. –John 8:36
- [Are You A Christian Or A Disciple?](https://heartstonejourney.com/are-you-a-christian-or-a-disciple/) - What is a Christian?
- [My Top 10 Quotes From Andrew Murray](https://heartstonejourney.com/my-top-10-quotes-from-andrew-murray/) - Here are 10 of my favorite quotes from Andrew Murray
- [Appointment With A Stranger](https://heartstonejourney.com/appointment-with-a-stranger/) - The woman at the well desperately journeyed through life searching for her heart’s true desire never finding it.
- [What The Gospel Isn't!](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-the-gospel-isnt/) - This is the true gospel – that God is relentlessly pursuing us with his love.
- [What's Your Story?](https://heartstonejourney.com/whats-your-story/) - From the beginning of time God has used stories. Passed on from person to person and generation to generation stories have inspired nations to trust and individuals to have hope.
- [Life is a Storyline](https://heartstonejourney.com/life-is-a-storyline/) - During my prayer time with the Lord this morning, He showed me an image of an open book with the pages slowly turning.
- [Nothing Is Wasted](https://heartstonejourney.com/nothing-is-wasted/) - It is just so hard to keep going sometimes when life is so difficult. We know God has a purpose for us, but sometimes we just can't see it yet.
- [Playfulness of God](https://heartstonejourney.com/playfullness-of-god/) - God is asking us to come to Him with a child like heart. He came to us simply, so that we could simply come to Him!
- [What The Movie Gladiator Can Teach Us About Ourselves!](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-the-movie-gladiator-can-teach-us-about-ourselves/) - The scene where Commodus learns of gladiators true identity really had an impact on me, because how many of us truly know who we are?
- [Pete Wilson](https://heartstonejourney.com/pete-wilson/) - When grace takes hold of you!
- [8 Commitments Found In Psalm 91](https://heartstonejourney.com/8-commitments-found-in-psalm-91/) - Psalm 91 exposes life for what it is and who God really is.
- [Are You Living Life, Fully Alive?](https://heartstonejourney.com/are-you-living-life-fully-alive/) - So many of us these days are just barley existing, just dreaming about touching the fringes of living life fully alive!
- [Jim Valvano](https://heartstonejourney.com/jim-valvano/) - Life giving words from a Dad to his child!
- [Kris Vallotton](https://heartstonejourney.com/kris-vallotton/) - Encouragement for living fully alive from Kris Vallotton!
- [I've Got A Busted Heart](https://heartstonejourney.com/ive-got-a-busted-heart/) - I've got a busted heart, I'm in need of a change. Yeah, I'm desperate for grace!
- [Life Is More Exciting With Adventure!](https://heartstonejourney.com/life-is-more-exciting-with-adventure/) - Live your life awake. Live your life to the fullest. It’s the only way!
- [3 Life Lessons From A Falling Leaf](https://heartstonejourney.com/3-life-lessons-from-a-falling-leaf/) - Living life is about being in every moment with God and to be ready for whatever God has prescribed for that moment to be.
- [What I Learned From Jumping Out Of A Plane](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-i-learned-from-jumping-out-of-a-plane/) - I stood at the threshold of all I knew to be safe, and without any rational thought, we leaped out of the plane, heading toward the ground at over 150 mph.
- [Woodrow Kroll](https://heartstonejourney.com/woodrow-kroll/) - Encouragement for the trials you're going through from Woodrow Kroll
- [Why Do Bad Things Happen And Why Does God Allow It?](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-do-bad-things-happen-and-why-does-god-allow-it/) - Once again this nation has come under attack. But for me and many others it's right on our back doorstep, this time it happened in Boston.
- [Mark Twain](https://heartstonejourney.com/mark-twain/) - Why do we have this fear of death? Mark Twain nails it in this quote.
- [Life Lessons I'm Learning From The Rain](https://heartstonejourney.com/life-lessons-im-learning-from-the-rain/) - One of the greatest tests I have faced along this journey of life is trusting in God’s goodness even though life does not make sense at times.
- [Discipleship: The Normalization of Sin (LIVE Multi-Cast)](https://heartstonejourney.com/discipleship-the-normalization-of-sin-live-multi-cast/) - In this live multicast I am a guest panelist on Christian TV Discipleship: The Normalization of Sin
- [I Love You Could Not Have Been Said A Better Way!](https://heartstonejourney.com/i-love-you-could-not-have-been-said-a-better-way/) - God had just finished creating Adam and Eve placing them within the pristine landscape of Eden; a land of paradise beyond our wildest imagination.
- [We Are a Chip Off The Old Block](https://heartstonejourney.com/we-are-a-chip-off-the-old-block/) - Needless to say, the story doesn't go well. Adam fails; he fails Eve and the rest of humanity.
- [Are You Living The American Dream?](https://heartstonejourney.com/are-you-living-the-american-dream/) - And he works and he builds with his own two hands, and he pours all he has in a castle made with sand, but the wind and the rain are comin' crashing in!
- [It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye!](https://heartstonejourney.com/its-so-hard-to-say-goodbye/) - I see it every day and I say it’s only living. Like life is only pain, believe me; my heart was given.
- [Warning: Dad's Failing To Pass The Mantle](https://heartstonejourney.com/warning-dads-failing-to-pass-the-mantle/) - Our actions and our words have an incredible impact on our kids!
- [Nathaniel William Taylor](https://heartstonejourney.com/nathaniel-william-taylor/) - The strength of a ship is only fully demonstrated when it faces a hurricane
- [Men Wanted For Hazardous Journey](https://heartstonejourney.com/men-wanted-for-hazardous-journey/) - Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctica expedition of 1914 - 1917 is one of the most incredible adventure stories of all time.
- [But By His Grace](https://heartstonejourney.com/but-by-his-grace/) - I would only challenge us to have the courage to leave some room for God to move in people.
- [Why Following The Yellow Brick Road Is Bad Advice](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-following-the-yellow-brick-road-is-bad-advice/) - Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
- [Awake My Soul](https://heartstonejourney.com/awake-my-soul/) - Awake My Soul by Chris Tomlin with Lacrae!
- [Finding Life!](https://heartstonejourney.com/finding-life/) - Jesus came that we may have life and have it abundantly!
- [Rick Evans](https://heartstonejourney.com/rick-evans/) - There is a big difference between hearing and listening.
- [The Best of 2012](https://heartstonejourney.com/the-best-of-2012/) - Here are the top three best Heartstone Journey posts by category for 2012. It is always pretty cool to see which posts resonated with people the most.
- [Merry Christmas 2012!](https://heartstonejourney.com/merry-christmas-2012/) - Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones!
- [Eric Lidell](https://heartstonejourney.com/eric-lidell/) - Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.
- [What The Heck?](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-the-heck/) - Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.
- [A Wolf Named Lupus](https://heartstonejourney.com/a-wolf-named-lupus/) - As my battle with lupus progressed, it was clearly evident that my life would never be the same.
- [Tears](https://heartstonejourney.com/tears/) - I do not want to be afraid. When our eyes meet, I know I am safe. Have I been orphaned, fallen within this blind dismay?
- [Post Election Thoughts](https://heartstonejourney.com/post-election-thoughts/) - Here is the big question...can you pray for our leaders, regardless of your opinion of them?
- [Favorite Logo Poll](https://heartstonejourney.com/favorite-logo-poll/) - Which logo is your favorite?
- [Noise](https://heartstonejourney.com/noise/) - How the world got so loud—and how it's making us deaf.
- [Once Upon a Time...](https://heartstonejourney.com/once-upon-a-time/) - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith!
- [Prodigal](https://heartstonejourney.com/prodigal/) - The father does not respond to what the son had done, but according to his own loving heart as a father.
- [Nightsong](https://heartstonejourney.com/nightsong/) - Sometimes there is no way out of your circumstances than to completely trust God.
- [Turning Point](https://heartstonejourney.com/turning-point/) - Have you ever thought of your children being treasures worth fighting for?
- [Jenga...For Real!](https://heartstonejourney.com/jenga-for-real/) - Our unwise choices are like pulling out pieces of our soul, one-by-one. Over time the structure or the fabric of our life crumbles to the ground in ruin.
- [Servant Leadership](https://heartstonejourney.com/servant-leadership/) - Charles Lauer defines servant leadership as follows. Leaders don't force people to follow, they invite them on a journey.
- [Kissed By The King!](https://heartstonejourney.com/kissed-by-the-king/) - Worship is offering praise to God with our words, our songs, our love, and the outpouring of our lives for others.
- [Remember](https://heartstonejourney.com/remember/) - Do you even remember the courage, resolve and the sacrifice that hangs in the shadows of this day?
- [We Are Living In The iGeneration!](https://heartstonejourney.com/igeneration/) - Self-centered indulgence are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
- [We All Need Feedback!](https://heartstonejourney.com/we-all-need-feedback/) - Ken Blanchard defines feedback as the breakfast of champions.
- [My Dad](https://heartstonejourney.com/my-dad/) - Father's Day is a day to intentionally pause, celebrate, honor and reflect on dads...but what about all the days in between?
- [Counterfeit](https://heartstonejourney.com/counterfeit/) - Have you ever paused and discovered that it's so easy to get lost in the counterfeit?
- [A Husband Cleaves](https://heartstonejourney.com/a-husband-cleaves/) - Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall CLEAVE unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
- [My Colors Will Be Clear!](https://heartstonejourney.com/my-colors-will-be-clear/) - My past is redeemed. My present makes sense. My future is secure.
- [Responses to "Who Is Your Samwise?"](https://heartstonejourney.com/responses-to-who-is-your-samwise/) - In life, everyone should have one person to count on. No one truly likes to be alone.
- [Why Are We So Focused On Building Sandcastles?](https://heartstonejourney.com/sandcastles/) - Success is measured not by your accomplishments, but by your impact!
- [Love Them...](https://heartstonejourney.com/love-them/) - How about we begin by loving people! Love them, love them more and keep loving them until they pause and ask why?
- [When the Tsunami Hits](https://heartstonejourney.com/when-the-tsunami-hits/) - What would you do in your current circumstances if you were absolutely confident God is with you?
- [Have We Commoditized Gossip?](https://heartstonejourney.com/gossip/) - Billy Graham nails it! A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
- [TED Takes on SOPA: Why it Would Create a "Consumption-Only Internet"](https://heartstonejourney.com/ted-takes-on-sopa-why-it-would-create-a-consumption-only-internet/) - What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world?
- [Wheat and Tares](https://heartstonejourney.com/wheat-and-tares/) - The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
- [What is in your filter  bubble?](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-is-in-your-filter-bubble/) - Check out this video that attempts to reveal what Facebook and Google are hiding from world.
- [What I Want for Christmas](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-i-want-for-christmas/) - What is it that we love about Christmas, once we get past the initial trappings?
- [Mirror Mirror On The Wall](https://heartstonejourney.com/mirror/) - Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?
- [Is God Good?](https://heartstonejourney.com/is-god-good/) - If God is all-good and all-powerful, why is there evil in the world?
- [You Have Forgotten Who You Are](https://heartstonejourney.com/you-have-forgotten-who-you-are/) - It doesn't matter how broken you are or how desperate your situation is, God can heal you and put all the scattered pieces of your life back together.
- [Stand](https://heartstonejourney.com/stand/) - When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him
- [What If There Was More To The Lion's Den?](https://heartstonejourney.com/lions-den/) - One of the most loved stories from the Old Testament is the story of Daniel in the Lion’s Den.
- [Why Life Is Like A Tapestry](https://heartstonejourney.com/tapestry/) - My life is but a weaving between my God and me.
- [Immeasurable!](https://heartstonejourney.com/immeasurable/) - Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth
- [David Murrow](https://heartstonejourney.com/david-murrow/) - Men follow leaders, not facilitators.
- [Fathers, Are You Making This 1 Huge Mistake?](https://heartstonejourney.com/fathers-are-you-making-this-1-huge-mistake/) - No one can give away what he or she has never received.
- [Can We Really Trust Our Choices?](https://heartstonejourney.com/can-we-really-trust-our-choices/) - There are many plans in a man’s heart, Nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand
- [Merry Christmas 2014!](https://heartstonejourney.com/merry-christmas-2014/) - Can you imagine what it would have been like if Jesus had not come?
- [Why All The Questions About Ferguson Are Perfectly Answered Through Jesus Christ](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-all-the-questions-about-ferguson-are-perfectly-answered-through-jesus-christ/) - Benjamin Watson shares, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope!
- [What Fleas Can Teach Us About Gratitude And Control](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-fleas-can-teach-us-about-gratitude-and-control/) - I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still possess.
- [The Shocking Truth Of Settling For Less Than God’s Best](https://heartstonejourney.com/the-shocking-truth-of-settling-for-less-than-gods-best/) - Have you ever noticed that we actually go out of our way to stay off the rough roads of life?
- [How Miserable Christians Can Get "Life" Back In Their Lives](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-miserable-christians-can-get-life-back-in-their-lives/) - If we are unexcited Christians, we should go back and see what is wrong.
- [Jesus Versus ISIS In Matters Of Adultery](https://heartstonejourney.com/jesus-versus-isis-in-matters-of-adultery/) - He who is without sin cast the first stone.
- [4 Ways To Begin Living A Worry Free Life](https://heartstonejourney.com/4-ways-to-begin-living-a-worry-free-life/) - Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
- [Under God’s Training](https://heartstonejourney.com/under-gods-training/) - When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.
- [What Does Walter Mitty And A Fire Pit Have To Do With Finishing Strong?](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-does-walter-mitty-and-a-fire-pit-have-to-do-with-finishing-strong/) - To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.
- [Billy Graham](https://heartstonejourney.com/billy-graham/) - Are you swayed by men or by God? Do you seek people’s favor or God’s? Do you blend in or battle?
- [What Mary Poppins Can Teach Us About Life’s Disappointments](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-mary-poppins-can-teach-us-about-lifes-disappointments/) - I’m tired of remembering it that way. Don’t you want to let it all go? Don’t you want to rewrite the tale and let it all go?
- [What Contentment Is Not](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-contentment-is-not/) - Contentment is essentially a matter of accepting from God’s hand what He sends because we know that He is good and therefore it is good.
- [What Does A Carpenter Know About Fishing And Hiking?](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-does-a-carpenter-know-about-fishing-and-hiking/) - Real faith is built on truth, teaching, learning and listening. Jesus will always build faith in you.
- [Where Have All The Men Gone?](https://heartstonejourney.com/where-have-all-the-men-gone/) - "The Resolution" is the bold declaration they pledged to live out and hold each other accountable to.
- [What 'Tron: Legacy' Can Teach Us About Seeing What's Right In Front Of Us](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-tron-legacy-can-teach-us-about-seeing-whats-right-in-front-of-us/) - I'd have given it all up for one more day with them.
- [Theodore Roosevelt](https://heartstonejourney.com/theodore-roosevelt/) - The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena!
- [Why "Game Of Thrones" Is Not An Original Idea](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-game-of-thrones-is-not-an-original-idea/) - There is something in all of us that wants to be king!
- [Life Is A Beautiful Struggle](https://heartstonejourney.com/life-is-a-beautiful-struggle/) - Brennan Manning shares, this is what it means to live by Grace rather than performance.
- [What Happens When Leaders Make You Feel Safe?](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-happens-when-leaders-make-you-feel-safe/) - What makes a great leader?
- [How To Change Your Online Life In 5 Minutes!](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-to-change-your-online-life-in-5-minutes/) - We continue to find ways to make it easier for us to connect with one another, but always results in us spending more time alone.
- [How Safe Is Your Fence?](https://heartstonejourney.com/how-safe-is-your-fence/) - The things we fear determine the boundaries of our freedom.
- [What Lord Of The Rings Can Teach Us About Fellowship](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-lord-of-the-rings-can-tech-us-about-fellowship/) - Strangers from distant lands, friends of old, you have been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor
- [What Will You Die For?](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-will-you-die-for/) - Until we have something to die for, we really never live.
- [Paulo Coelho](https://heartstonejourney.com/paulo-coelho/) - Paulo Coelho shares that the challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.
- [What Kids Can Teach Us About Brotherhood](https://heartstonejourney.com/what-kids-can-teach-us-about-brotherhood/) - It might be being a friend to someone who needs it. Be inspired. Go inspire.
- [John Ortberg](https://heartstonejourney.com/john-ortberg/) - Are you ready to face your next mountain?
- [The Warrior Heart](https://heartstonejourney.com/the-warrior-heart/) - A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
- [Speak Life](https://heartstonejourney.com/speak-life/) - Ready, set, GO! Be inspired, go inspire!
- [Let It Go And Just Be Held](https://heartstonejourney.com/let-it-go-and-just-be-held/) - Your worlds not falling apart, its falling into place. Im on the throne, stop holding on and just be held. Just be held, just be held.
- [Rocky Balboa](https://heartstonejourney.com/rocky-balboa/) - You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.
- [Martin Luther King Jr.](https://heartstonejourney.com/martin-luther-king-jr/) - There is also power in the words we speak over our lives and the lives of those around us, for those things which we confess we take on.
- [Merry Christmas 2013!](https://heartstonejourney.com/merry-christmas-2013/) - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!
- [Why We All Need A John Sculley In Our Lives](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-we-all-need-a-john-sculley-in-our-lives/) - You could see the betrayal in eyes of Jobs eyes Mike Markulla sides with Sculley and the board which results in Jobs removal from the Macintosh project and demotion.
- [Will You Find This On Your Resume?](https://heartstonejourney.com/will-you-find-this-on-your-resume/) - As quoted by Erwin McManus, Integrity is not about being faultless; it is about being "falseless"
- [Its Time To Cancel Your Plans To Be Miserable!](https://heartstonejourney.com/its-time-to-cancel-your-plans-to-be-miserable/) - I had arrived at a place in my life where life became discouraging and hopeless. I had lost all hope, and it made me sick.
- [Andy Stanley](https://heartstonejourney.com/andy-stanley/) - Walking your talk, a a character challenge from Andy Stanley.
- [Little Drummer Boy](https://heartstonejourney.com/little-drummer-boy/) - Have you hear the Little Drummer Boy by Pentatonix? All I can say is wow and I have my favorite Christmas song for 2013, enjoy!
- [Why Bilbo Baggins?](https://heartstonejourney.com/why-bilbo-baggins/) - I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.
- [Willard Marriott](https://heartstonejourney.com/willard-marriott/) - Encouragement for the trials you're going through from Willard Marriott

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