Aug 16
“2013 is flying by!” “My kids grow up so fast! They are changing so quickly” “Enjoy your kids while their young, because they will be grown by the time you turn around.” “I don’t know where all the time went.” If I had a dollar for every time I have heard or said one …
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Aug 13
What do you do when you hear some close friends have had a child in a car accident? What do you do when you hear your brother-in-law is leaving your sister? What do you do when your neighbor, a sweet elderly lady, has a son commit suicide? What do you say when you are trying …
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Aug 11
Last week I wrote a blog post about being approachable. I want to tackle the other side of that issue in this post. I was talking to someone recently from another congregation and he said, “I know the elders just dread seeing certain people coming to them.” Let’s be honest, we all have certain people, …
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Aug 07
Do you walk around with this sign figuratively attached to your forehead? Durk Jager, former CEO of Proctor and Gamble was profiled in the book DeRailed by Tim Irwin wore such a sign. He wrote about him: “Rather than drive change through courageous empowerment and wise deployment of skills, Jager, a large man “built like …
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Aug 04
A few years back I read the book Tiger Force which tells the horrible tell of a Vietnam special forces platoon that because of poor leadership, little supervision, and hatred committed numerous war crimes on innocent villagers. They did horrible acts like killing innocent civilians, murdering babies, and raping women. This quote from the book …
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Jul 26
Over the last several years, we have gotten into running. Amanda is a better runner than me. She has completed two half-marathons. Yet, running is something we do together, though it is rarely side-by-side. Most of the time, because of small kids, we run at separate times. Sometimes, when we are with family, we will …
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Jul 19
In the last post I shared what I learned from studying from Alexander Campbell. I wrote an article titled, “The King of the Kingdom” for FHU’s Kingdom journal. The article is based on an article written by Campbell called “The Kingdom of Heaven.” I believe that the points Campbell made in 1834 about Christ as …
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Jul 18
I was asked to contribute an article for Freed-Hardeman University’s journal Kingdom. Ralph Gilmore is the editor and chose to focus on an article by Alexander Campbell called the “Kingdom of Heaven” written in 1834. I was assigned the “King” of the Kingdom. Alexander Campbell, an early restoration leader, saw the kingdom of heaven as …
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Jul 14
One of our young adults at Seven Oaks showed me this picture tonight and jokingly said: “We let him listen to your sermon podcast.” At least he was on a church pew! Ha! By the way, visit the Audio Resources page to access some helpful sermons, especially in putting pets to sleep!
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Jul 12
When tomatoes start coming off each year in our garden I think about Brooke eating them as a baby. She likes them now. Here is a cute story with an important lesson I wrote back in August of 2008. Cherry tomatoes are so delicious to eat, and they look so good with that red glow. …
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