Motivation & Inspiration

When Nothing Satisfies

By Asher Witmer Motivation & Inspiration
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We’re currently in the middle of Presidential election campaigns. The problem is, few people feel that either of the candidates left are fit for the job. People are frustrated. No, infuriated! And they are making decisions about who to vote for based on their heated emotions.

But in the middle of all the hullabaloo about racism, gun control, immigration, the economy, emails, and spelling, we’re missing the fact that politics can’t solve the problems causing us to feel so emotional.

If electing the right leader won’t solve our issues, what will?

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Do You Agree with Every Book You Read?

By Asher Witmer Motivation & Inspiration
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Is it okay to learn from a book if the author has beliefs we’re not sure are Biblical?

I often refer books to my friends even though I have yet to read a book where I fully agree with the author. There is nothing worse the someone condemning a book who has not actually read it, or is not familiar with what the author teaches. Unless the author or speaker makes a significant theological or doctrinal error in his teaching, I think we benefit from hearing what they have to say.

I can’t promise that they won’t need discernment as they read the books I suggest, but there are a few thoughts I try to keep in mind that I believe can help all of us test authors in a healthy way.

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I’m Taking a Blogging Break–here’s why

By Asher Witmer Motivation & Inspiration

How do you plan to spend your Christmas vacation? Will you be visiting family, or are you going to stay home and celebrate with friends? Do you plan to take any time off of work, or just Christmas Day?

In less than forty-eight hours my family and I board a plane for Los Angeles. We are excited about this trip! Not only because it has been two years since we celebrated Christmas with my family, but also because Teresa’s brother is getting married later in January. We’ll be in the States for six weeks and it will be a riot! (Yes, I’m anticipating a riot traveling with two toddlers.)

One of my biggest weaknesses is trying to do too much at one time. As a result, I often don’t get everything done. On Sundays, I find it hard to sit and read because I think of everything else I could and should be doing. I feel like I’m often running behind and not able to keep on top of life.

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My Personal Testimony

By Asher Witmer Motivation & Inspiration
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Life is rarely cookie-cutter simple. Whether it’s relationships, family, money, following God, church, our jobs, or deciding which jeans to buy, life isn’t as easy as we wish it was.

Some people live as if life is a formula to be solved, but there is no formula to solve the disillusionment and confusion we sometimes feel. Perhaps that’s why I like to tackle issues on this blog that are relevant to my generation. I want this blog to be a place that helps people sort through the hard questions they face.

It seems to be resonating.

In the last year, the readership on this blog has increased by more than six hundred percent (600%). I typically assume that my readers know me and where I come from, but as is natural with such growth and as I’ve been discovering over the last six months, many, if not most, of my readers don’t know my background. So I thought that this week I would share with you my personal testimony.

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A Better Way to Solve Gun Violence

By Asher Witmer Motivation & Inspiration
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Another shooting happened this past week that directly targeted Christians. While most Christians seem primarily worried about the government restricting their use of arms through gun laws, I’m beginning to ask a few questions.

What if there was a better way to solve gun violence than through politics? I’m conservative, and certainly don’t like the thought of only the government being in control of weapons, but what if all that shouldn’t matter to us as Christians?

One Christian senator encouraged fellow Christians to carry personal weapons for self-defense. How does that line up with following Christ? Jesus healed the man his disciples struck with a sword in defense of Him.

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How I Discovered God Uses Imperfect People to Do the Impossible

By Asher Witmer Guest Post, Motivation & Inspiration
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Sometimes our flaws and weaknesses stick out so glaringly that we get caught up in how needy we are and fail to realize that God might want to work through us. My friend RaVonne shares about a time when God used her and how she learned that God does the impossible through imperfect people.

RaVonne lives with her family in Thailand where she is learning that God can use her even when she feels needy. Currently, RaVonne is a student at a missionary training school in Thailand and seeks to support herself through her passion of photography by producing cards. You can check out her stuff here.

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How to Effectively Tell Your Story

By Asher Witmer Motivation & Inspiration

What’s your story? Everyone has a story: how they’ve become who they are today. What’s yours? Jerry grew up on the mission field. His parents were so involved in ministry they neglected to invest in him. He wrestled his whole life with feeling like God took his parents away from him and has little desire […]

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Ugly Ministry

By Asher Witmer Motivation & Inspiration

I had my requirements. Often, I realize I still do. Something heroic. I was going to save many souls—win a people group for the Lord and be killed moving on to the next one. Other days it would be a well-known evangelist. Anything that was glorified by others… that’s what I wanted. I never would […]

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A Volcano to My Faith

By Asher Witmer Motivation & Inspiration, Spiritual Formation

I have wrestled intensely with questions during the last year. Simple questions, that avoid being answered. I assume if you have ever experienced something that shook your faith at its core, you also struggled with these questions: “Why?” “Where was/is God?” “Is there any meaning to this?” Losing Mom is to my faith like a […]

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