KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE:
If commitment, responsibility, and accountability are the end goals, then INTEGRITY is the means to ensuring you get there.
Convictions (like most things in the spiritual life) are not transactional; rather, they are constitutional.
Your greatest responsibility to your family is your SPIRITUAL leadership!!!
Even the Best of Us Fail – blog – 8/16/25
We all fail. Even those who spent time with Jesus Christ in the flesh failed him miserably, and often. Let us not become so discouraged that we despair and give up. Never give up just because you have failed. Get up, dust yourself off, and press on. There’s always tomorrow.
If Jesus never gives up on us, then we shouldn’t either.
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But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
– 2 Corinthians 4:7-11
Let us be inspired by the simple fact that the Lord, despite our known frailties, has given us the Gospel to spread. Failure is part of the game, my friend. Get used to it. While we ought never make excuses for it, we ought never throw in the towel, either!
Integrity has no “quit” in it; otherwise, it is no longer integrity.
Don’t be in bondage to your circumstances, ladies!
Even the Best of Us Fail – blog – 8/16/25
Few things are more frustrating than that very moment after we’ve surrendered to sin and then must confess it to the One Person whom we wish to please the most. While repeat offenses are a hard pill to swallow, we must look to one another for encouragement, knowing that we’re all in this struggle together.
Only sin takes issue with authority. From God’s perspective, authority and order are two sides of the same coin. Order is divine. Disorder is evil. From this perspective, “authority” is simply a descriptor of that which keeps order (integrity underpins authority). It’s only offensive to sin; otherwise, it’s beautiful.