Ok, I realize I’ve gotten about three series all discombobulated but my goal of wrapping all of them up this week (albeit, out of order) seems within my grasp! And this one is actually the easiest of them all. I may come back to the list I originally posted here, but for now, it’s that […]
READ MOREThe wrap up here couldn’t be simpler.  In the last couple decades nutritionists have taught us the principle of garbage in = garbage performance. In other words, if we eat junk food, our performance will be pretty junky. Not sure why it took them so long to figure this Einsteinion principle out but, hey, […]
READ MOREThis is a wrap up of a post I started over a week and a half ago. So you will definitely need to click here to get yourself up to speed. Why do you think it was that the religious leaders of Jesus day kept asking for Jesus to jump through hoops (“They kept […]
READ MOREA pastor friend of mine shared with me of a difficult time he just had at the church he leads. Turns out there was a small group of folks who thought the church should move in another direction (by ‘another’ they meant ‘Their’ direction). This isn’t exactly rare (sad to say) but no matter how common […]
READ MOREOk, don’t shoot. I need to take at least a week off from the old blog if it’s okay with all you faithful readers. Not only do I have three major events to speak at this weekend, but also, I’m just a bit fried for things to say right now. My mind is on the […]
READ MORELet’s start here. Read Mark 7:14-23 14 Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “All of you listen,” he said, “and try to understand. 15 It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart.a]’>[a]” 17 Then Jesus went into a […]
READ MOREIn Mark 8:11 we see some religious leaders make a familiar request of Jesus. “Show us a sign!” There’s only one problem… They’d already seen somewhere in the neighborhood of a gazillion “signs” from Jesus!!! What in the world was wrong with those people???!!! too dumb to pick up on the […]
READ MOREI absolutely loved…loved, loved, loved this past weekend! Was it the slick production? No, we kept it pretty simple. Although there were beautiful images on the screen for our time of reflection. Was it the music? No, although I thought our time of worship and especially the old hymn was AWESOME! Was it the message? […]
READ MOREGo here for part 1 of this mini-series. So, there’s a good fear and a bad fear. Let’s deal with the bad first. Bad Fear… paralyzes us and keeps us from doing great things for God Often causes us to focus on selfish things (i.e. “I don’t want to speak at such […]
READ MOREEver play this as a kid? You grew out of it though—didn’t you? Hopefully? Please tell me you grew out of it! It’s fun as kids, but even when we’re young, moist people don’t want to play this in relationships because most of us want to know who we are dealing […]
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