Josh Rouse

"Wisdom demands more of us. Wisdom... would have us walk circumspectly. It would have us see around the decisions we’re making. Walking around them and seeing where the chips may be falling and what may be happening when they do." thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

Relying on our limited perspectives can often result in missing out on the full scope of how things really are. New Blog Tuesday: DST thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

“Solomon’s words aren’t really about the people, places, or things that annoy us. No, he’s more focused on the annoy-ed…. That’s what foolish people do. They can’t let the things that are annoying them slide.” thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

What are the little annoyances of life revealing about our character? New blog Tuesday: Fruit Fly thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

"I...believe...we experience the comfort and joy and security of being a child of the living God... Even if nothing around us goes to plan, we’d still know where home is––in the sure hands of our Heavenly Father." thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

Pursuing God can so often take so many shapes and forms. Spooky or not. New blog Tuesday: Bump In The Night thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

"It sometimes seems like the game-plan...is to just keep enough stuff in front of us to where we don’t pursue what’s real.... We don’t need to commit these terrible sins... to miss out.... It’s actually become much easier than that... Just distract us." thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

Sometimes tuning things out might be the trick to tuning in to what God has for us. New blog Tuesday: Headphones thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

"Brennan Manning once wrote, 'None of us has ever seen a motive.' That’s really what we’re talking about here. It’s so incredibly difficult to make a judgment because we have no idea what that other person is thinking." thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

We make judgments at our own expense. It doesn't have to be that way. New blog Tuesday: What's What thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

"Maybe... when we did as Jesus said, was that we proved ourselves faithful. Maybe it was about our being able to do just as he said. Maybe his instruction was just for us to experience the joy of being faithful." thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

Sometimes it's not so much about what's being asked, but who is doing the asking. New blog Tuesday: Because You Say So thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

Skinny Ray 4eva #Braves

Skinny Ray 4eva #Braves

"I would never wish disappointment on anybody. But how else do we grow through hard stuff? We have to experience it. We have to go through it. Because to go through it is to grow through it." New blog Tuesday on Wednesday: Disappointment Education thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

Could life's disappointments be subtly preparing us for bigger and better things? New blog Tuesday: Disappointment Education thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

“Don’t let your chatter… misinformation… lack of truth… become something that compromises the calling God’s placed on your life.” New blog Tuesday on Wednesday: Small Town Talk thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

What does the way we handle everyday chatter say about the truth we claim to carry? New blog Tuesday: Small Town Talk thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

"There is no neutral corner in your human encounters, no antiseptic arena in which ‘nobody else is hurt’ or ‘nobody else knows about it.’ You either make people a little better, or leave them a little worse." New blog Tuesday on Wednesday: Perception thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…

Sometimes things are not as they seem––and that can be a wonderful thing. New blog Tuesday: Perception thisjoshrouse.wordpress.com/…