Caryschmidt

LATEST ARTICLES ( 389 )

• The New Book—Live Lighter, Love Better!

  

  Over the past six years God has performed a complete rewiring of my internal value and motivational system. He began with the blessing of a battle with cancer. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Keeping Sanity in an Insane Election Season

  In Luke 21, Jesus taught His disciples how to keep their sanity in the midst of cultural and societal upheaval. Would you like to keep yours? Me too! Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Monday Encouragement for Ministry Friends

  It’s Monday morning.For a pastor, that’s a low time of the week—generally speaking. The typical demons of doubt and second-guessing attempt to do their work—... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Losing Our “Learned Helplessness”

  Psalm 81:6 begins with these words “I removed his shoulder from the burden.” This is God speaking regarding his deliverance of the nation of Israel. Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• 10 Habits of Healthy Families

  Is your family close? Do you tolerate each other? Or do you actually enjoy each other? Do you love spending time together? Can you laugh with each other? Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Tell His Story Through Your Story…

  There’s hardly a scarier and more intimidating thing to do in the Christian life than to speak up and share your faith with a lost person. Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Strengthened In Your Storm!

  Has God led you into a storm? Are you seized with worry, fear, confusion as the winds howl around you and water builds up in your boat? Feel like you’re... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• 14 Toxic Qualities of Leadership (Part Two)

  In part one of this post, we explored the first seven qualities of toxic leadership. Are you ready for the next seven? We are discovering “what not to be” when... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• 14 Qualities of Toxic Leadership

  

  Leadership is hard, and biblical leadership calls for gospel maturity more than many leadership roles. I’ve been exposed to many Christ-like and some toxic... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Make It Easy to Make It Right

  Some years ago, God gave us the privilege of helping some young people and their families through difficult trial. Satan had laid a cleverly disguised trap,... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How to Validate God’s Call…

  God’s will—how do you know when and how to step out in faith? God’s will is big. It’s also unknown. It’s wonderful. It’s also scary. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How to Down-Size Your Problems

  “And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.” (Luke 6:12)Have you felt overwhelmed... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Remember and Pray—Reagan On Memorial Day

  On May 26, 1986, President Ronald Reagan shared these stories:“Here in Arlington rests a sharecropper’s son who became a hero to a lonely people. Joe Louis... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How Leaders Can Foster Resentment

  If you are a leader, you’re probably not planning to foster resentment or to hurt people. But you might be on a road that leads there, and not know it. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• My Non-Endorsement, Election-Season Gut-Check

  (Note: You will not find an endorsement, a political agenda, or any mention of current politicians in this post. This is purely a biblically objective... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Make Meetings Great Again!

  Ministry involves a lot of meetings. We meet for church, for fellowship, for planning, for relationships, for outreach, for discipleship. We meet with church... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Old Testament Giving and Real Christian Living

  This post is a bit outside of my normal subject matter, but I invite you to hang with me! (This is a simplified view of old Testament offerings, not designed... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Hope for Our Hurt

  Nearly every Christian I meet has been hurt on some level in some context, and many have been hurt in spiritual contexts—environments and relationships that... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Help Your Graduates Prepare for the Future

  A Tool to Help High School Grads Understand Their Own Hearts and DirectionThis is a repost that I pray will spur some ideas related to your teenage graduates... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Paradox of Sorrow and Joy!

  The themes of joy and sorrow have been on my heart and mind these past several days and nights. I’m sure, to some degree right now, you have some level of sorro... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY