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Nov 18

Daily Dose 29: Shelving Values and Priorities

If you have been dabbling in the priority gathering experiment, several little lists may be piled in front of you by now: verses, responsibilities, Titus 2 priorities, dreams you were brave enough to commit to paper, answers to long-range questions. Now what? Well, it’s just about time to box them up, set them on the shelf, and forget about them for awhile, that’s what!  Read more

Nov 17

Value Questions

Value Discerning Questions

Use questions like those below to help you identify your values for yourself. Go ahead write the musings that lead to the answers in your notebook. They’ll be fun to read ten or twelve years from now:

1. Is it a lifelong challenge?

2. Is it the outgrowth of a deeply held belief?

3. Is it the outgrowth of an unswerving conviction?

4. Will pursuing its fulfillment lead me along acceptable scriptural paths?

5. Does it demand or expect God to do something that may not be within His will for me?

6. Does it adequately express a secret longing, far-fetched dream, or deep-seated desire?

7. What about my personal character will hinder accomplishing anything I call a value for my life?

8. Can I identify blind spots for myself that might be hindering me from seeing biblical values clearly for myself?

9. Is there someone I can ask about this topic of values and blind spots ?

Nov 16

Daily Dose 28: The Keys 4: Key Priorities for Women

Titus 2: 3-5 is such an intriguing passage.

  • First, the words are intended to inform church leaders about God’s way women would make a powerful spiritual impact on the church and, ultimately, the world. The church leadership was to facilitate its happening.
  • Second, it provides all women long-range priorities since the challenges are not for a particular season of womanhood, but for all women to aspire to, achieving their prime contributions to Christ’s Cause when older.
  • Third, many of the words used in the passage are used nowhere else in the New Testament. Truly, women were being given unique responsibilities as part of Christ’s cause.
  • Fourth, while the passage is home-centered, it is not home-bound; the world would be impacted by the work product He has in mind.
  • Fifth, the outline is bursting with creative options to bring the goals to fruition. What is there not to like? Read more

Nov 15

Daily Dose 27: The Keys 3: Key Shared Priorities

This is the key that provides some much needed balance to all the talk about differing roles for males and females because somewhere along the biblical teaching line, the nuanced balance point that men, women, and children have a long list of mutually compatible responsibilities to fulfill successfully their biblical home mission was lost in the discussion, leaving only the cavernous divide of the differences in outlook and expectation that has served only to make “understanding” one another seemingly impossible.  Read more

Nov 14

The Keys

Our priority house is unlocked by keys of biblical truth, truths that orient our individual homes inside God’s plan for all homes. Why are there families and homes in the first place? Who is important in the home? What is everyone to do? Admittedly, they are old truths (is there any other kind?), but in the post-modern world, we find things as simple as expecting family to make time for family dinners being touted as fresh, innovative ideas for the new century. On the other hand, some have become political firestorms with battles for defining marriage and spouse pulled new directions. Read more

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