Tag: Christian
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Go South To Get North
I used to see bumper stickers reading “God is my Co-Pilot”. One of my youth staff had this on their beater of a car. Besides the fact it is cheesy Christian stuff, there is truth in this. Genesis shows us one of these incidents. Jacob wanted to fulfill God’s plan for him in the land…
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Loving the Environment
Enjoying the environment and beauty often gets a bad reputation when people take it to extremes. Some believers even go so far as to say, “Let’s trash the Earth, God is giving us a new one anyway.” How does this line up with Scripture? What does God think about the environment? In Genesis 2:7, when…
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Eat This Book
I’ve been reading Eugene Peterson’s Eat This Book recently. His analogy of us reading the Word of God was striking. I want to share it with you. “Years ago I owned a dog who had fondness for large bones…He gnawed on the bone, turned it over and around, licked it, worried it. Sometimes we could hear…
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The Next Generation Leader by Andy Stanley
Andy Stanley is one of my favorite communicators. I thoroughly enjoy his podcasts and respect what he has accomplished. When I read several blogs touting must-read leadership books, his was on there. I picked up a copy of Next Generation Leader and was not disappointed. Andy looks at 5 Essential Traits for those who will shape…
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Change: An Unexpected Roadmap
You’ve cast the vision, instilled the values, spent hours of time guiding and training your team. You are ready to soar! Then…… A key player falls sick and enters the hospital. The exciting events of marriages and pregnancies are causes for celebration yet create waves of change in a family or organization. In missions it could be the…