Month: November 2015
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Define the ‘win’
Are you a ‘winner?’ How do you know? When I watch my Patriots play, I know when they win. How? The score! The team with the most points on the scoreboard wins! When the Pats take the field, they perform with the purpose of raising that score – touchdowns are the only thing that […]
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Change the Whole Atmosphere
How do you want this week to go for you? Do you want to be miserable, irritable? Would you prefer joy? There is a singular choice that you alone can make that will have a major impact, shaping your environment. What is that? Gratitude! People will do things you do not like. Some will […]
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Let’s finish well
Thursdays are often the longest day of the week for me, the middle of the pastor’s week, the ‘make or break’ day for weekend preparation. This morning while I was getting focused for the day I thought of the child’s tale about staying in the race. Remember Aesop’s fable about a race between a […]
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Fell From the Fire
On Friday I lit a fire in our fireplace. The flames and warmth are just right for a relaxing evening. First, there are small pieces of kindling. On top of that are smaller pieces of wood. Once that has caught fire, burning nicely, I placed two larger pieces on top to sustain the fire. As […]
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S.D.G. – your motive?
Three letters closed every composition done for the Church by composer Johann Sebastian Bach: “S. D. G.” Who can listen to his work, e.g. “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” and not be stirred, spirit lifted? The composer’s desire was not to please the listener but to honor God. He worked on his church music with […]
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Make Monday Mornings Peaceful
How would you like to multiply your peace and effectiveness this week, starting now? We are so accustomed to oversell that you probably read that line with some level of disbelief. However, there is a decision you can make right now and an ongoing shift in attitude you can make that will change you! The […]
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Lean in to touch Jesus!
Got a need that is crushing the life out of you? Carrying a burden that makes every step a weary one? So did the little woman who pushed her way through the crowd to find Jesus. Her illness left her weak physically and she was emotionally alone, too, for those around her considered her ‘unclean’ […]
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But, Lord, I don’t want to be like Tupperware!
But, I want to be a beautiful jar! Jeremiah, sent by God with sermons of correction, received a message in the strangest of places. “Up on your feet! Go to the potter’s house. When you get there, I’ll tell you what I have to say.” So I went to the potter’s house… Whenever the pot […]
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I am not waiting to be rescued!
About 10 pm last night I turned off the television after watching several earnest people offer to ‘fix’ America if they are elected to the Presidency of this great nation. There were a few interesting ideas but mostly it was a rewarming of things I have heard from politicians for most of my adult life. […]
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This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
The digital ‘conversation’ for the last 48 hours is about a guy who thinks that a national coffee chain is terrible because the cups they are using this Christmas are just red with no “Christmas” designs on them. One of the guys running for President picked up on the theme and declared that when he […]
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