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Heart
7 posts tagged “Heart”.
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Giving: Obligation, Option or Opportunity?
CNN recently posted an article called “How passing the plate becomes the ‘Sunday morning stickup’” that is focused on the distorted teaching around giving in the church today. I read the article and as hard as it was to…
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Forgiving When You Dont Want To
I vividly remember my early years when I would get a scrape, gash or scratch that would require a “band aid,” and how the miracle numbing spray of Bactine would take away the pain. Soothing comfort quickly replaced the…
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Leadership: It’s Not About You
Many years ago I remember hearing the phrase from the mouths of these influential mentors “lead, follow or get out of the way.” A “braveheart” like command that when heard summons a boiling caldron of courage and…
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The Sabotage of Sentimentalism
A new friend of mine recently told me, without hesitation, that “Sentimentalism can overshadow truth.” He said it so effortlessly and without a pause for objection or response that I wrote it down to take time to dig…
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When You Feel Like God Is Not There
There are times in my life where I feel like God is gone, not present, at least not around me. They are terrifying lonely spaces of time in my journey where I don’t see him. These are the moments where my feelings and…
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Facebook Terrorists
Terrorism – the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes. One of the big reasons terrorism creates terror is that you don’t know who they are and when they will attack…
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Decoration or Declaration?
A friend recently told me that he wanted more courage to ask a question of many people he had seen come through his office who were all wearing crosses. He felt a curious tension that prompted his desire to know, “Is…
