let go

It’s hard to sit back and watch something happen that you wanted to be a part of. Perhaps there will come a time.

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and so it goes…

This is one of those posts where I can feel I’ll talk in circles and try to wax philosophically and end up with a mess that really doesn’t go anywhere. Fueled in large part to a less than 3...

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time to engage

Most of my life, my mom has been a bit sickly. She’s cough, she’d be sick. Then she’d get over it. Not that I grew callous to her sickness, I just accepted ti as part of who she is...

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lots of stuff at once

I tend to like many "irons in the fire". A Vandals Project, church things, OTB stuff, ABMI issues, audio work and parent complexities. Oh, and I need to mow the lawn... I might be getting too old for this. --...

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i can grasp it, but can i accept it?

Chambers strikes again... I tend to find myself falling into the trap of our Western society in thinking that I need to be useful to God. I need to use my time and talents for HIm. And if I am...

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can someone explain…?

Why are there people sitting in church “leadership” who say they are really “followers” rather than leaders when asked to take initiative on something that seems to fall in line with what they are “about”?

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five loaves and two fishes

So, the plan was to have a little going away meal. My cousin’s son chatted with me a couple of nights ago. He is moving out of town and wanted to get together. I suggested a meal at our...

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roll up our sleeves

Listening to Gordon MacDonald kicks our butts on church stuff. Simple basic stuff. Get generations talking. Reduce assets. Build leaders. Don't hold on to your identity at the cost of building the future. His presentation is far from flashy....

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