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One Word 2013 In Review

For the past few years, I’ve selected a single word to live by throughout the year. This is a word that defines my life for the year, and helps undergird everything I do for the next twelve months.

One Word 365

The new year is quickly approaching, and a new word is on the horizon. I’m not going to reveal it now; that post will come closer to the end of the year.

I choose to identify and implement a word every year as a part of my life plan. I add this word to the beginning of my plan, and try to use it as a piece of the foundation for every portion of my plan. Some areas are more successful than others.

Right now, I’m examining the past year to see how I lived according to the word that I chose.

For 2013, I chose the word intentional.

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One Word 2012

Last year, I adopted a single word that would be my theme word for the year.

One word…

…to live by.
…to think by.
…to underscore everything I did.

One Word 365

That word was Passion.

I factored that word into everything I did. At least I tried to do that.

I think I did pretty good most of the year. There were times I forgot the word, times I neglected to have passion. And I don’t have a good excuse for it. I was just lazy.

Having passion takes work. And sometimes I didn’t feel like working.

Reflecting on the past year and my attempts to accomplish so much led me to see what this year’s word needs to be.

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Developing A Life Plan (ESD)

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A personal Life Plan is perhaps one of the best ways to help keep your life on track, and is a tool that can help you become the person that God created you to be. Developing a plan for your life is a critical aspect of spiritual growth, because it lays our a tangible blueprint that can help you achieve the goals that God has for your life.

Unfortunately, most people never stop to accomplish this simple task.

Blueprints

I’ve maintained a personal Life Plan for several years now, initially starting to develop my own after reading about it on Michael Hyatt’s website. Once I got my plan in place, I wrote a blog post detailing it slightly. You can read that post here.

However, over the years, I’ve tweaked my plan to fit my life like a glove. And the more I utilize this tool, the better it becomes. This one simple activity can be traced to a significant portion of my personal and spiritual growth over the last few years.

Creating a personal Life Plan is simple, but it’s not easy. It’s simple because it’s your life. You already know your plans and goals. You know yourself better than anyone else and what you want to accomplish in life, how you impact the people and things most important to you, and where you’d like to see yourself in the next few years, and longer.

But it’s not easy. It takes some work. It requires some effort. However, it is well worth the time invested.

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Think On These Things… Whatever Is True

Towards the end of 2012, I started a series of posts on Philippians 4:8-9. And then, with the holidays, all the end of year wrap-ups, reviewing my goals, my Life Plan, and One Word for the new year, and the birth of my son, I kind of let it slip through the cracks.

Whatever Is True...

But now, I want to revisit that idea, and write some articles about each of the characteristics listed in this passage.

Paul’s grammar, in the original Greek, gives each of these first six traits distinct and special emphasis. The first one Paul mentions is “whatever is true”.

There are a lot of ways the word “true” can be used, and numerous implications throughout Scripture. But what does Paul intend here? Based on his context and wording, “true” here means that one’s thoughts conform to reality. This seems to be reinforced by the phrase “think on these things.”

This is not the word used for reaching a truth at the end of a logical thought process. This is more of the idea of truthfulness, integrity, character. True means honest, genuine.

That’s a tough quality to find in the twenty-first century. It seems as if everything is ambiguous; that nothing is black and white. the line between truth and falsehood is fuzzy and indistinct and gray. Based on the fact that Paul found it necessary to write this, it must have been much the same in the first century.

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Read Through The Bible in 2019

Because It Matters What You Read

I can think of nothing higher on my priority list each day than to spend time in God’s Word. It’s that important. It really is.

Bible on Bench

I have tried over the years to find a Bible Reading Plan that makes a significant difference in my life, attempting and eliminating various options over the years. A few years ago, I found one that works for me quite well, and 2019 marks my seventh year of using it on a daily basis. I’ll describe it below, along with the impact it has had in my life.

Before I get to that, though, I want to reinforce what you probably already know to be true: that a daily Bible reading discipline is a necessity for the Christian life. It is difficult, if not downright impossible, to grow without spending significant time reading and studying the Word of God.

I won’t go into all the details of that in this article. I have written extensively on this over the years. Briefly, I’ll list several of the articles here:

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2017 Bible Reading Plans

Because It Matters What You Read...

I believe that spending time in God’s Word is one of the most important pieces of our daily spiritual growth. God’s Word really has no way to impact our lives unless we are exposing ourselves to it consistently. Bible reading is perhaps the most critical of the spiritual disciplines.

2017 Bible Reading Plans

I’ve written several times in the past about this discipline:

This is an extremely critical element of our spiritual lives, and it seems to be occurring less and less in our culture. But when you begin to experience the many benefits of consistent, daily time spent in God’s Word, you’ll develop a craving for more.

God’s Word truly does change us.

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2016 Bible Reading Plans

Spending time in God’s Word is one of the most important aspects of daily spiritual growth. Allowing God’s Word to impact your life will not happen unless you are exposing yourself to it consistently. Bible reading is perhaps the most critical of the spiritual disciplines.

Bible Reading Plans

I’ve written several times in the past about this discipline:

I firmly believe that this is a critical element of our spiritual lives. And it seems to be lacking in a lot of people’s lives. I think, when you experience the many benefits of consistent, daily time spent in God’s Word, you’ll develop a craving for more.

God’s Word truly does change us.