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Read this many times. It’s insane truth written by CS Lewis. Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and ar …

There is nothing, and I mean nothing like the power of God’s Word! One Scripture changed my life forever. If you want a reminder of God’s Word, or know someone who needs one, please take a look at shieldsofstrength.com and use the code Kenny for 20% off for the next couple of weeks. Hebrews 4:12,”For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the though …

The measure of a man is found in “why” he does what he does. Same with women. I wrote about this extensively in The Right Fight. Available on amazon and at shieldsofstrength.com 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. …

Someone loving us is not permission to hurt them just because they will forgive us. It’s a responsibility to love them. If we love someone....the last thing we ever want to do is hurt them. That said, as much love as I feel for Tammie, and as hard as I fight to love her, I still manage to hurt her far too often. Healthy relationships and marriages are rarely without hurt. It’s the willingness to truly repent and truly forgive that keeps love growing stronger. If someone continues to hurt us with …

Love never ever wants to hurt anyone! It’s extremely painful for love to be forced to deliver the news that the person it loves needs to change. That said....though it may be painful, love will deliver the message not for itself but for the sake of the person it loves, and it will take no joy in any suffering. Fear on the other hand will enable. Fear will tell selfishness what it wants to hear so it will be loved. It’s really not loving anyone but itself. It’s doing what it takes to be loved. It …

We should not go around making mountains out of mole hills, but when real trouble comes love runs towards it, not away from it. Run to trouble and ask the most important question....Why? Somewhere in the answer to “Why” is the answer to the trouble. We should be willing to repent if we are the problem. If we are not the problem, don’t respond in anger. Respond with the truth as kindly as you can deliver it. The truth doesn’t need our help or our anger to pack a punch. Then follow the truth where …

Jesus is not a religion He is a Savior! Religion is manipulation. It's giving to get. Love gives expecting nothing in return. Jesus didn't go to the cross so we would love Him. He went because He loves us despite our sin, and He desires we love Him. He made a way but we must chose love. A loving church stands on the love of Jesus and preaches the cross! A religious church puts something or many things between us and the cross -keep these rules then you find the love of God. Jesus didn't give to …

Thankfulness is the fruit of gratefulness. No one owes us anything! If we buy the lie people or God owes us something, we plant and nurture the seed of our own destruction. Luke 17:15-19”One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner? Then he said to him, Rise an …