Self Examination: How Are You Using Your Strengths in Your Relationships? The beginning of a new year is a wonderful time to examine yourself, particularly in how you are using your strengths. This kind of self-examination can be challenging because your strengths are intangible. One practical way to understand how you have used your strengths…
How God Used Mary and Joseph’s Strengths, Part 4 God specially selected Mary and Joseph to be Jesus’ earthly parents. He used their different strengths in processing information, solving problems, managing change, and facing risk – each in unique ways. The Christmas story reveals the value of those differences. Mary and Joseph balanced one another.…
How You Can Empower Others to Know and Use Theirs Every person has strengths. But do the people in your life know theirs … and understand how to use them? You can help that happen when you give them a gift of strengths – a tool they can use right away. As an added bonus, most…
How God Used Mary and Joseph’s Strengths, Part 3 Throughout the Christmas story, Mary and Joseph demonstrate the value of different strengths. God specially selected Mary and Joseph to be Jesus’ earthly parents. He used their different strengths in processing information, solving problems, managing change, and facing risk – each in unique ways. Mary and…
How God Used Mary and Joseph’s Strengths to Process Information Throughout the Christmas story, Mary and Joseph demonstrate the value of different strengths. God specially selected these two individuals to be Jesus’ earthly parents. He gave them different strengths in solving problems, processing information, managing change, and facing risk. Mary and Joseph used two distinct…
How God Used Mary and Joseph’s Strengths in Solving Problems The Christmas story offers powerful lessons about strengths. God specially selected Mary and Joseph to bring His Son into the world and raise Him. He used their different strengths in processing information, solving problems, managing change, and facing risk – each in unique ways. When…
A Devotional About Gratitude Quick question: are you thankful for the differences you see in those around you? Maybe No Not always If you mentally checked any of the above answers, take heart. It is natural to struggle with specific differences we see in others. You may be confused by or even dislike how others…
Feel, Show, Tell – Ways to Thank God for Your Strengths Are you grateful for your strengths? Many of us consider gratitude to be a feeling. But in scripture, gratitude is an action. In at least 162 places in the Bible, God references His desire for us to show gratitude. There are commands (“give thanks”…
Third in a 3-part series that celebrates how differences complete us We have bought into the lie that differences between people divide us. Yet the truth is that God’s design is for our differences to complete us. During this series, we address the 3-part cycle that celebrates how differences complete us. Once you discover your…
Second in a 3-part series that celebrates how differences complete us We have bought into the lie that differences between people divide us. Yet the truth is that God’s design is for our differences to complete us. During this series, we address the 3-part cycle that celebrates how differences complete us. The first step, outlined…