Evaluation

“think about it over and over again like we're re-evaluating even as new things enter our life. God, is this like taking too much of a a priority in my life? That's something we have to evaluate. So again, we do not fall in love with the world and we don't fall away altogether like this guy. Like we don't want that to be the testimony of our life. And the only way that that we keep that from happening is we continue to evaluate like is my love for Jesus rightly ordered above everything else? And so I'm going to pray that it would be in”

“Yes, as a father, but as a believer. Principle number one. If we're going to be effective and positive in our communication, we always have to begin with the principle of evaluation. Evaluation. That is, what we think before we say what we say. We have to consider, we have to evaluate. We need to engage our minds before we engage our mouths. That's why God gave us an anatomy, a lesson that he mentions here in James chapter 1 and verse 19.”

“He's not talking about evaluation. James is not prohibiting the act of discernment or delineation. We know that as Christians, we are called to judge in the sense of evaluating the world around us. We are to determine between biblical and unbiblical, holy and unholy, wise and unwise.”

“to ask our wives and to think categorically, physically, how are things going? Emotionally, how are things going? Do y'all remember me giving you the thumb, the thumb evaluation system? Everyone put your thumbs up. Put your thumb up, okay? This means good. Put your thumb down. This means not good, okay? Simple evaluation. In between, I don't know, we're neutral, we're yellow light, whatever you want to call it. But, but I always want to encourage you to, so to say, give yourself an assessment. Give your marriage an assessment, physically, emotionally, relationally, things”

“I'm not great either. But I mean, the truth of it is if we are not actively intentionally pursuing the Lord, we are headed down on that down escalator. We need to evaluate our lives. I need to evaluate my life and my priorities. Think carefully about what you've been doing. It's essentially saying, "Hey, lift your head for a minute. How's this working out?" I mean, we often like I get blinders and I'm just down here. I just feel like I”

“We thought we needed to do it. This last time it came around, we discussed and talked. We hadn't updated it in nearly 16 years. They made it really easy because there was a lot of availability to get on and make an appointment. And so it was convenient. To whom much is given, much is required. And I think that it's just an opportunity for us to evaluate. I think that's where He wants us. He's evaluating those things He's stewarded to us, given to us to steward.”

“We might evaluate ourselves in certain areas because we want to be more successful. But when it comes down to us as who we are, at the core of who we are, we do not like to look at that. That's why we hate silence as a culture. That's why we love turning on TV and staring at our phones, because it absorbs the silence where we might actually have to deal with what's going on inside of our hearts. But one of the most helpful things we can do is to self-evaluate our own lives.”

“fair fight. And if you and I are going to have a fair fight, it has to begin number one with what I would call honest evaluation. Let's start with honest evaluation. Now, I don't know how many people in this room have much knowledge of boxing or have ever participated in boxing. Uh many of you have at least seen the Rocky movies or Creed or something like that. But but I know that we've got enough knowledge to know this that before anyone ever actually enters”