Category: Faithful living

Christian Parenting, Christian Discipleship, Everyday Faith, Faithful living, hope, love, Relationship with GodBy Cos Davis

Gratitude

Gratitude, the cure for a bad attitude. As most of you know, I’m in my eighth decade here on this planet. I’ve made lots of trips around the sun on this spinning ball we call earth. And in my days, I’ve experienced good and bad, gain and loss, health and sickness, success and failure, and satisfaction and disappointment. From time to time I’ve been known to remark to another “mature” adult, “By the time you learn how to live, it’s almost time to die.” Most times that remark is acknowledged […]

Christian Parenting, Christian Conversion, Christian Discipleship, Christian Growth / Children, Discipline, Faithful living, life maps, life purpose, personal growth, Relationship with GodBy Cos Davis

My Choices, My Character, and My Destiny

Your choices determine your character, who you are. Your character determines your destiny. This blog is about Truth # 4 in a series I’m calling “5 Life-Changing Truths”. This and the other life-changing truths are covered extensively  in my book , Heaven’s Currency, Investing In The Things That Matter Most. http://www.cosdavis.com/heavens-currency-investing-in-the-things-that-matter-most. Here is the essence of Truth # 4. ” My choices determine my character, which in turn determines my destiny.” Think about it, memorize it, and repeat it often to yourself.    Sometimes we are faced with competing choices.  Which […]

Christian Discipleship, cultural war, Everyday Faith, Faith, Faithful living, personal growth, Relationship with GodBy Cos Davis

What Is Your Faith Quotient?

What is your faith quotient? You have an intelligence quotient (IQ); I know you are pretty smart, or you wouldn’t be reading my blogs. You also have an emotional quotient (EQ). Some folks are emotionally smart, in addition to being intelligent. For years we’ve heard that women are more emotionally intelligent than men, we’ll save that discussion for another day. Here’s a neat article, if you want to learn more about IQ and EQ. https://www.ctnewsonline.com/news/faith/article_36597602-cfe5-11eb-b35b-5f468e1b3832.html  Today, I want to talk with you about your faith quotient. I have a question […]

Christian Parenting, Christian Conversion, Christian Discipleship, Discipline, Everyday Faith, Faithful living, Family, Healthy Love, life maps, love, personal growth, Relationships, Self-EsteemBy Cos Davis

Toxic Thinking

Toxic thinking. Have you ever known someone whose thinking has been poisoned by the words and actions of others? I’ve known several folks like this. Many of them developed toxic thought patterns about themselves because of verbal abuse by a wounded parent. There is an old saying in Scripture that goes something like this, “The parents have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” Toxic or poisoned thinking is often a generational issue; the grandparent is angry from an unhealed wound, afflicts their child with their […]

Born Again, Christian Conversion, Christian Discipleship, Discipline, Everyday Faith, Faithful living, forgiveness, Healthy Love, life change, life decisions, life maps, life purposeBy Cos Davis

How Is Your Vision ?

Our subject today is vision. Your eyes are a marvelous testimony of the ingenuity of our Creator. If you haven’t done so, take some time to investigate some of the marvels of one of the most intricate and wonderful parts of your body, your eyes. For many years I had perfect (20/20) vision. But as I continued to age, I needed glasses with a corrective lens to enable me to read and see things up close more easily. Another change came and I now wear glasses to correct my vision […]

Christian Parenting, Christian Conversion, Christian Discipleship, Christian Growth / Children, Faithful living, Family, forgiveness, Healthy Love, love, Marriage, personal growth, Relationships, repentanceBy Cos Davis

Life Lesson: Trust

Webster defines trust as “assured reliance on the character, strength, or truth of someone or something.” Let that sink in a minute. Where do your thoughts take you? Do you have an unreliable vehicle or appliance? Are there certain politicians who come to mind? More importantly, are there family relationships such as husband, wife, siblings, children,  parents, or “friends” whom you doubt you can really depend on when you need help? One of our greatest needs as human beings is to feel safe with others, to believe another person can […]

Christian Discipleship, Faithful living, love, personal growth, Relationship with GodBy Cos Davis

Do You Remember?

What do you do to help you remember the important things you want to get done?  I get so busy at times that I don’t remember where I put something. For example, several years ago while working on a project in the garage, I lost a knife Dad gave me. Later, I realized this important gift was missing but had no idea where it was. Several years later, I reached for something on top of the water heater and there it was!! I had not remembered putting it there. I […]

Christian Conversion, Christian Discipleship, Everyday Faith, Faith, Faithful living, hopeBy Cos Davis

Is God in the Details?

  There is an old cautionary statement related to contracts and business transactions that says, “The devil is in the details.” I take this to mean we need to read and understand the contingencies related to the deal we are making before we sign our name to the paper. In the housing crisis a decade ago lots of people lost their houses because they didn’t pay attention to the fact their sub-prime loan rate would change, resulting in much higher mortgage payments. The devil was in the details. I don’t […]

Christian Discipleship, Everyday Faith, Faith, Faithful living, life decisions, life maps, personal growth, Relationship with GodBy Cos Davis

That’s Gratitude for You

  If you read last week’s blog you will recall my story about my frustration with birds pooping on the swing I use for meditating and resting from yard work. I am happy to report the spike board I put above the swing is working! I have not cut the tree from which I was “spotted” but neither have I suffered a repeat of being personally assaulted by the ungrateful creature that pooped on me. By the way, the spot on my blue pants will not come out. Every time […]

Christian Discipleship, Everyday Faith, Faith, Faithful living, life change, life decisions, life purpose, personal growth, Relationship with GodBy Cos Davis

Dealing With Disappointment

For the past several days I have been dealing with a major disappointment related to the book I’ve been working on for almost three years. About a year ago I made contact with an agent I had a good feeling about and we hit it off really well. He liked my idea and was very helpful and encouraging in the early days of the work. We were excited and shared hope and an expectation about getting the book published. Everything was going well, and then life happened. This man became […]