Discipline

In 1986, as a fifteen-year-old, Tommy Moe was invited to be part of the U.S. ski team. But he was caught sneaking out of camp to smoke marijuana and kicked off the team. Tommy's father, and Alaskan construction worker, ordered him to come home. After a few months of laboring twelve to sixteen hours a day in the Arctic summer, his father asked him if he'd rather be a construction worker or part of the ski team training in Argentina. "It humbled me up pretty fast,"Tommy said. And it showed. At the 1996 Olympics, he took gold in the men's downhill.

How do you respond to your heavenly Father's correction? If we are not willing to confront our own sin, or be confronted by others, we are not yet as spiritually mature as we should be.

Turning Points

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March 2006