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A thought by Craig Groeschel from his book, Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are (p. 23). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) I know, I know.   You may have been given a new title and you have problems believing what it says you are. Craig says, “Shortly after joining my church staff at the tender age of twenty-two, I passed a lady in our office. She smiled broadly and said, ‘Hi, Pastor Craig,’ and kept on walking. Pastor Craig? Are you kidding me? I don’t deserve to be called ‘Pastor’ anything! “Uncomfortable with this title, I found my boss, Nick, and told him that I wasn’t ready to be called Pastor yet. I didn’t know enough. Wasn’t good enough. And still had way too much to learn. Pastor Nick burst out laughing, put his hand on my shoulder in a fatherly manner, and said, ‘Pastor Craig, I remember feeling just like you. Don’t worry. You’ll grow into your new name.’” Craig goes on, “Those words helped change my li

A thought by Craig Groeschel from his book, Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are (p. 19). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) I know, there are things about each one of us that we each one have problems with.   Now I’m not asking you to write me and tell me what yours is, no I’m not.   I can’t change it for you but God can and he wants to do it.   Craig says, “There is no sin too great for God’s grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love. Let me say it again because I want you to believe this: God’s power is bigger than your past. “And his power is rooted in his love for you. He knows who you really are no matter what others label you — or what you label yourself. What’s true about you now doesn’t have to be true about you later. The goal is not to reinvent yourself by striving to be some perfect person but to allow God to do an extreme makeover by uncovering your true s

A thought by Craig Groeschel (2013-10-22) from his book, Fight: Winning the Battles That Matter (Kindle Locations 713-714). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title of the book to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) And our emotions can be so powerful can’t they?   I mean, do you know what they said to me?   And our emotions carry us to do what we know isn’t what we really should do.   Craig says, “While being emotion-driven often leads us to do the ungodly thing, being Spirit-led never does. If you truly want to do what’s right, letting your emotions take over will rarely get you the outcome you want.”   And we know that is the truth. He talks about how this plays out at home, “Maybe you slip up and say something stupid, something you didn’t even mean to say. You know you should apologize, but you figure, ‘Man, if I open that door, there’s no telling what all might come spilling out.’ Or you’re caught up in your spirit of entitlement — ‘I shouldn’t be the one to