Posts tagged prayer
Influence

“Influence” is a word that is overused in today’s culture. We describe people as “influencers” because they have an amount of followers on social media, which presumes that they have an impact on the opinions or actions of others.

Measuring by that standard, we can be fooled into believing that we are not influential if we don’t have a massive following. Yet, this thinking is flawed, as the quote illustrates. We often have no idea of the true, lasting influence on others that we wield every day.

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Book Recommendations: Devotional Reading

About once or twice a year, I ask for feedback from friends on Facebook for their book recommendations for my Bible study time.  I love year-long devotional books, as well as shorter studies that I do as supplemental reading. And I’ve been tremendously blessed with FANTASTIC recommendations.  I feel like my Bible study tribe really gets what I’m looking for, because I’ve been thrilled over the past few years with the suggestions. This year I opted for two of their recommendations, but today I’m reviewing one of them: Kurt Bjorkland’s “Prayers for Today.

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