Category: Thoughts
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Blinded To the Truth
Have you ever noticed how people seem to come to a sudden and dramatic realization of the Truth of Jesus Christ? Christianity has existed for over 2000 years, yet people continue to come to the Lord with a sudden realization that makes it seem like they are hearing the story for the first time. I’m…
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A Spiritual Bell Curve
It seems to me that most of the discussion and debates I read and hear from Christians center around taking on ideas and philosophies that go against their own beliefs. They engage in endless back and forth debates that more often than not degrade into hatefulness and name calling. These debates do little to change…
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The Spoiled Princess
Yesterday I made a Facebook post about spoiling my daughter and how I hope that the end result would be for her to have high expectations of any other man that comes into my Princess’s life. The resulting discussion in the comments really got me thinking through what makes the difference between positive and negative…
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Do It Like David
Have you ever been watching the worship team at church during a particularly moving section of a praise song and seen the guitarist just get carried away in the moment? Or maybe the song is moving fast and the drummer is just pounding out a beat like he’s in the Whac-a-mole championships? I’ve heard many…
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Standardized Test Scores Predict Nothing
VERY intriguing video from Angela Lee Duckworth at a Ted Conference on what makes a good student (or a successful person in general). It’s not IQ, Standardized Test Scores, perceived safety, or Socio-economic Status. It’s just pure grit. Another interesting observation is that a person’s view of failure is crucial. Failure is not permanent. You…
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Education Won’t Save Our Children
There is so much debate lately about Education Standards (Common Core) and Standardized Testing. The problem is, we’re focusing on the wrong thing. Changing the standards won’t help our children succeed. One side of the argument I hear so often is that we’re falling behind the rest of the world. Let’s just say we come…
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ADD Worship
This morning I read a devotional on the topic of worship. It got me thinking about how our modern society views worship versus what worship really is at its core. You see so many churches spend time, money, and energy creating the “perfect worship experience”.
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Daniel Pascual Ramirez Zaragoza
Last night, the earth lost a mighty man of God. It would take a book to write the background of this young man, so I can’t really do that here. If you would like to know more, you should go to Fishers of Men Mexico and read more about his background and his family. You…
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Worship Rebooted
I receive a magazine called “Technologies for Worship”. I started receiving it because I used to volunteer as a sound tech at a church we previously attended. It has some great articles on the basics of using audio and video technologies in church. Increasingly though, I have become disillusioned with the content. It has less…
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Not Me!
We’ve all experienced asking our kids a question about “who did it” and received the response, “not me!” haven’t we? …maybe our kids came by this practice honestly.