Have you ever felt like a kid peering through the window of the candy store looking at all the things available… but not for you? Sadly, there’s absolutely no way that you can conceive of that would allow you entrance. What do you do? Sadly walk away? Pout? Bang your head against the door? Try […]
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As you enter my apartment I have a plaque that reads – ‘find joy in the journey’. That phrase brings to my mind a number of thoughts: we talk a great deal about happiness but not so much about joy, we are the subject of the phrase though not spoken – it is our opportunity/responsibility/’duty’
When you say ‘church’, to what or whom are you referring? The building? The leadership? The people in the congregation? Who? Or is it a what? Can you get angry or disappointed with a what? or with only a who? What, precisely, are you seeking from a church? What happens when you don’t experience this…
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President, Pope, CEO” etc. was a phrase heard often when i was growing up. It meant that you were being bossy or rudely overbearing. The purpose was a wake up call to the ‘offender’ to take stock of what they were saying, and how, because no one was going to do/say/act on what was wanted.
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I’m a great advocate of moving on… of taking the next step… of not being held captive by errors and sins… of learning from the mistakes. I still believe this, but I didn’t mention making that step ‘better’ than where you are. It was, obviously, implied but the How wasn’t. I’m also patience deficient. I
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There is a misleading phrase being accepted by many. Sadly, it is their delusion. It is NOT truth. The phrase is that there are many paths to God. No! Is this another attempt to water down Christianity? Who has perpetrated this lie? Has the church, in an attempt to be ‘inclusive’ and acceptable, reinforced this
Our experiences mark us. HOW we ‘handle’ these experiences indelibly determines our character. Both can be changed, reversed, built upon, and/or developed. I always find it fascinating how the same experience can be viewed in so many different ways dependent upon our individual history. And I believe that what we do with the learnings from
Quick to judge? Quick to see the ‘bad’ in others? But… how do you go about being fair and right? What do you do with ‘your judgment’ in order to confirm it?What is your method of assessing ‘truth’? To begin with – what is the source of your information on which you make your judgment?
Judging is a given… Judgment??? Read More »
Unless it’s a ‘thing’, you should never compare. In the ‘person, place, or thing categorization – people should never be put in neat little boxes (no matter how beautiful the box). You cannot put them in cement either… they will insist on moving and changing and growing. Don’t you? How would you like to be
There are 3 danger times in our lives that we can, or do, take our eyes off the prize, “…the upward call on our lives.” (Philippians 3:14). The first is in our youth when we are in our invincibility phase. The second is in our mid-life when we are confronted with the cares of the
Just write down any questions that you may have and I will get back to you in a jiffy!
