If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.

Only by taking Jesus' example into every part of our lives will we be able to win in life.

To know God and to make Him known.

Hearing God is not all that difficult. If we know the Lord, we have already heard His voice - after all it was the inner leading that brought us to Him in the first place. But we can hear His voice and still miss His best if we don't keep on listening. After the what of guidance comes the when and how.

If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.

Sometimes God does something dramatic to get our attention. That's what happened to me in 1975. My family and I were enjoying the peace and quiet of a borrowed cabin in the Colorado Rockies. I was stretched out on a lounge chair in the midday warmth, praying and thinking. I was considering how we Christians - not just the mission I was part of, but all of us - could turn the world around for Jesus.

We get caught in our boxes-but when we pray outside of them, ask God, the impossible CAN be done.