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Rich Words
“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness taht comes through Jesus Christ — to the glory and praise of God.”…
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09/09/09
I had to get that in somewhere! Spirit Led Leadership This weekend I am leading a retreat and we are reflecting on Spirit-led leadership. I love learning from Moses, so I jotted down some of these thoughts about the leadership traits of Moses: 1. Hearing God He heard God from the burning bush. He kept on listening. His prayer life…
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Book Giveaway
I’ve not participated in any of these as yet. (Although I did happen to win an ill-fated TNIV Renaissance Bible from Zondervan.) Connect to this blog and follow the simple rules. I don’t know why I’m telling you. I am the one who wants to win!
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Am I His Slave?
I love giving myself to the study of the Word. There are times when one word can leap out at me and I am lost in the wonder of what God is saying to me. Philippians 1:1 — “Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus…” The word is slave. Our cultural communication has harmed the ability to use that word,…
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A Pause for a Baseball Note
I love baseball. It’s been my lifelong passion as a hobby. Unfortunately, I grew up in Kansas City. It wasn’t unfortunate when I was growing up. We had pennant chasers back then. Three years running in the 70s we took on the Yankees every October… and lost. But we were THERE. In 1980 it was the World Series… and a…
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The Danger of the Cult of Personality
This excellent article served to encourage me as pastor of a small church. I also found it interesting because, as a minister in a Pentecostal denomination, I thought WE were the only ones in danger of the cult of personality!
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Good to Great in God’s Eyes
Chip Ingram has a book out called Good to Great in God’s Eyes. I am using as a staff book for my church. While the first chapter is a bit more simplistic than I had hoped, there are some great thoughts. One of the key areas to greatness in the Kingdom of God is to think great thoughts. One idea…
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Okay… maybe I AM here…
Dazed and confused, it’s possible I figured out how to get my browser to point to wordpress after all. Total accident. It’s quite possible I’m now STUCK here. So, maybe it’s time to be off into the world of WordPress and make this work even better than Blogger.
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Sorry, but I can’t stay here…
There has been too much headache for me to move from blogger. I have a domain name and I’m just not smart enough to point the domain to wordpress. Blogger has become a very easy tool for me, so my preference is to remain there. I will try to make commenting easier over there, if possible. Come see me some…
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Translations
Over the past two years or so I have looked to switching my personal study and reading to the TNIV. I had heard from Gordon Fee, one of the translators, and I liked what I read in updates from the NIV. I was never a huge fan of the NIV. Well, huge controversy arose over the TNIV being “gender inclusive.”…
